The Sea Of Trolls

Jack was eleven when the berserkers loomed out of the fog and nabbed him. It seems that things are stirring across the water the Bard had warned. Ships are bein... » 

Jack was eleven when the berserkers loomed out of the fog and nabbed him. It seems that things are stirring across the water the Bard had warned. Ships are being built swords are being forged. Is that bad? Jack head asked for his Saxon village had never before seen berserkers. Of course. People dont make ships and swords unless they intend to use them. The years is A.D. 793. In the next months Jack and his little sister Lucy are enslaved by Olaf OneBrow and his fierce young shipmate Thorgil. With a crow named Bold Heart for mysterious company they are swept up into an adventurequest that follows in the spirit of The Lord of the Rings. Other threats include a willful mother Dragon a giant spider and a trollboar with a surprising personality to say nothing of Ivar the Boneless and his wife Queen Frith a shapeshifting halftroll and several eight foot tall orangehaired fulltime trolls. But in stories by awardwinner Nancy Farmer appearances do deceive. She has never told a richer funnier tale nor offered more timeless encouragement to young seekers than Just say no to pillaging. «