M. I. McAllister facts for kids

Margaret I. McAllister is an English author of children's books, born in 1956. She grew up on the north-east coast of England. Her first book, A Friend for Rachel (also called The Secret Mice) was published by the Oxford University Press in 1997. Urchin of the Riding Stars, the first in The Mistmantle Chronicles, was published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2005. A Friend for Rachel and The Mistmantle Chronicles are now published by Purple House Press, who announced in October, 2024, that a sixth book in the Chronicles is forthcoming.