A Cricket At Court (Cricket's Song, Book 2)

Cricket has become a student at the Academy of the Bards. He learns how to use his music to make magic, and soon receives the Star of the Bards, the culmination of all his dreams. But he finds that being a bard is not at all like he thought it would be, and he again he must choose whether to follow the old ways, or to accept the new ways. This time, however, he serves the Queen, and he has not only his own honor to consider, but the good of all Glencairck as well.