This book paws through the Norse pantheon with eager enthusiasm. It also has a good overall plot--how can we stop the end of the world, when it has been prophesied? And a lady who's supposed to be sexy and a good fighter (note cover). But it rings very hollow. The playing with myth was really the...
Middle schooler Thatcher Hill goes to live with his uncle in a small seaside town in California for the summer. His job is to take care of odd objects at the Museum of Curiosities, which includes a mysterious shrunken head in a box. A young girl steals this mysterious object from the museum and t...