This is volume 1 in The Icemark Chronicles .

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

This book was published 2006 by Scholastic .

Stuart Hill was born in Leicester, in the East Midlands, where he still lives. He has worked as a car trimmer, a cemetery gardener, a teacher, archaeologist and bookseller. He now writes full-time. The Cry of the Icemark is his first novel for children.