num_pages: 110
description: 1998 WWA Spur Awards, Finalist in Best Western Juvenile FictionThe friendship and adventures of Iktomi, the trickster figure from Lakota legend, and Troll, the familiar character from Norse mythology, are the subject of this imaginative, marvelously spun tale. While searching for his Norwegian immigrant family, the gentle, lumbering Troll meets Iktomi. The vain, opportunistic Trickster soon discovers that he too has lost his people, the Lakota. When Iktomi and Troll eventually find their peoples, they are neither recognized nor wanted. The lonely Trickster and the Troll find solace in their friendship and take refuge in a cave. Many years pass before they are rediscovered and loved again.
language: English
title: The Trickster and the Troll
titlecomplete: The Trickster and the Troll
genres: Young Adult, Fiction
ratings_count: 32
publisher: University of Nebraska Press