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English
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This simple and warm story is a fantasy about a 12-year old boy named Odd, a lucky name in Viking tradition, who has had two pretty rough years. But Odd has a kind heart and a positive attitude. Life took on a better light for Odd when he met three chatty animals - supposedly Viking gods sent by the Frost Giant.
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Language
English
Description
Magnus Chase has always been a troubled kid. Since his mother's mysterious death, he's lived alone on the streets of Boston, surviving by his wits, keeping one step ahead of the police and the truant officers. One day, he is tracked down by a man he's never met -- a man his mother claimed was dangerous. The man tells him an impossible secret: Magnus is the son of a Norse god. The Viking myths are true. The gods of Asgard are preparing for war. Trolls,...
3) Valkyrie
Author
Series
Valkyrie volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Freya is a Valkyrie, a reaper of souls. But she hates what she must do. She doesn't like humans and the pain they inflict on each other, and she never wants to visit another battlefield. But when a soldier begs her to help his family back in the human realm, she agrees and discovers a world of friends. Now she'll have to find a way to keep her promise to the soldier and prevent the wrath of Odin from destroying the world"--
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Series
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English
Description
"Thor's hammer is missing again. The thunder god has a disturbing habit of misplacing his weapon--the mightiest force in the Nine Worlds. But this time the hammer isn't just lost, it has fallen into enemy hands. If Magnus Chase and his friends can't retrieve the hammer quickly, the mortal worlds will be defenseless against an onslaught of giants. Ragnarok will begin. The Nine Worlds will burn. Unfortunately, the only person who can broker a deal for...
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Language
English
Description
Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he presents his fashioning of the primeval Norse myths into a novel, which begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds, delves into the exploits of the deities, dwarves, and giants, and culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and the rebirth of a new time and people. Gaiman stays true to the myths while vividly recreating...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Four female mercenaries known as Boneless Mercies, weary of roaming Vorseland, ignored and forgotten until they are needed for mercy killings, decide to seek glory by going after a legendary monster in this reimagining of Beowulf.
10) Ransacker
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Sissel Hemstad and her siblings have been living peacefully in small-town Montana, but while two men, one a mine owner and one a Pinkerton spy, are courting her, using her gift as a Ransacker could doom them all.
11) Runemarks
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Maddy Smith, who bears the mysterious mark of a rune on her hand, learns that she is destined to join the gods of Norse mythology and play a role in the fate of the world.
12) Berserker
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Hanne and her siblings flee Norway after her "gift" causes her to commit murder, and on the American frontier Owen, a cowboy, leads them toward their uncle who may help them learn control.
Author
Series
Underworlds volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Loki is waging war, and Pinewood Bluffs is about to become his battlefield. Owen, Dana, Jon, and Sydeny know they have to stop him. They'll do whatever it takes"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Thunder girls volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Idun, the goddess of youth, races to protect her grove of magical apples from the mischievous schemes of Loki.
15) Odin's ravens
Author
Series
The Blackwell pages volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Ragnarok--the apocalypse--threatens, the human descendants of the gods band together to fight monsters, and Matt Thorsen and his friends must journey to the underworld to save a descendant.
16) Loki's wolves
Author
Series
The Blackwell pages volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Matt Thorsen is a direct descendent of the order-keeping god Thor, and his classmates Fen and Laurie Brekke are descendents of the trickster god Loki. When Ragnarok--the apocalypse--threatens, the human descendents of the gods must fight monsters to stop the end of the world."--
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Two years after their adventures in The Land of the Silver Apples, the apprentice bard Jack and his Viking companion Thorgil confront the malevolent spirit of a vengeful mermaid and begin a quest that casts them among the fin folk of Notland.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls.
19) Thor's serpents
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"As Ragnarok--the apocalypse--approaches, the thirteen-year-old descendants of the gods realize they can't take every step of their journey together, as Matt must fight the Midgard Serpent alone, and Fen and Laurie are pulled in different directions"--
Author
Series
Publisher
EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"With his mighty war hammer Mjollnir firmly in his grasp, fearless Norse warrior Thor is on the hunt for action and adventure. Join him on his travels as he takes on terrifying giants and monstrous sea serpents, before the final epic battle of Ragnarok"--