Odd and the Frost Giants

By Neil Gaiman

Subjects: Odin (Norse deity), Heroes, nyt:chapter-books=2009-10-11, Animals, Juvenile fiction, Children's stories, Norse Gods, Fiction, Animals, fiction, Norse Mythology, Giants, fiction, Children's fiction, Loki (Norse deity), Giants, Fantasy fiction, Gods, fiction, Science Fiction, Four transformations and a meal, New York Times bestseller, Juvenile Fiction, Afterwards, Thor (Norse deity), The gates of Asgard, Heroes, fiction

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.