Title: Odd and the Frost Giants
Description: In this inventive, short, yet perfectly formed novel inspired by traditional Norse mythology, Neil Gaiman takes readers on a wild and magical trip to the land of giants and gods and back.In a village in ancient Norway lives a boy named Odd, and he's had some very bad luck: His father perished in a Viking expedition; a tree fell on and shattered his leg; the endless freezing winter is making villagers dangerously grumpy.Out in the forest Odd encounters a bear, a fox, and an eagle-three creatures with a strange story to tell.Now Odd is forced on a stranger journey than he had imagined-a journey to save Asgard, city of the gods, from the Frost Giants who have invaded it.It's going to take a very special kind of twelve-year-old boy to outwit the Frost Giants, restore peace to the city of gods, and end the long winter.Someone cheerful and infuriating and clever . . .Someone just like Odd.
Subjects: Fiction, Giants, Norse Mythology, Odin (Norse deity), Thor (Norse deity), Heroes, Loki (Norse deity), Juvenile Fiction, Science Fiction, The gates of Asgard, Afterwards, Four transformations and a meal, Children's fiction, Gods, fiction, Animals, fiction, Fantasy fiction, Heroes, fiction, Giants, fiction, Norse Gods, Animals, nyt:chapter-books=2009-10-11, New York Times bestseller, Children's stories
People: Loki (Norse deity), Odin (Norse deity), Thor (Norse deity)