Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Odd and the Frost Giants

4.1/5 ( ratings)

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 .

Language: English

Pages: 128

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: HarperCollins

Release: September 22, 2009

Odd and the Frost Giants

4.1/5 ( ratings)

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 .

Language: English

Pages: 128

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: HarperCollins

Release: September 22, 2009

More books from Brett Helquist

The Bad Beginning

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Reptile Room

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Wide Window

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Miserable Mill

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Ersatz Elevator

The Vile Village

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Carnivorous Carnival

The Slippery Slope

The Hostile Hospital

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?