• Odd and the Frost Giants

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    Odd and the Frost Giants
    Neil Gaiman
    HarperCollins, 2009
    Fantasy
    ISBN: 0061671738
    128 pages

    Synopsis

    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.

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    East

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    East
    Edith Pattou
    Harcourt, 2003
    Fantasy Fiction
    ISBN-10: 0152045635
    494 pages

    Synopsis

    Rose has grown up in the north and that’s all she’s known her whole life. Her family is struggling, and it gets harder every year. The youngest of a large family, she always seems to have a wandering heart that can’t be tamed.

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