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Neil Gaiman

Odd and the Frost Giants

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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 .
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70 printed pages
Publication year
2009
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    Very good tail for boys

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Quotes

  • Kasper Enevold Nielsenhas quoted4 years ago
    “I’m sorry,” he said, in a most un-sorry tone of voice. “I thought my runaway stepson was here.”

    Odd looked down at the man. Then he smiled and he said, “It is him. I mean, it’s me. I’m him. I’m Odd.”
  • Kasper Enevold Nielsenhas quoted4 years ago
    Odd wondered if Loki had a fox’s eyes still, or if the fox had always had Loki’s eyes.
  • Kasper Enevold Nielsenhas quoted4 years ago
    “How?” asked the eagle.

    “Magic,” said Odd, and he smiled, and thought, If magic means letting things do what they wanted to do, or be what they wanted to be . . .

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