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M AGNUS IS JUST LIKE ANY OTHER NORMAL TEENAGE BOY living in the streets of Boston after the murder of his mother. Or so he thinks, until he wakes to find his relatives searching for him and seemingly walks into a trap set by his uncle. Soon Magnus finds himself dodging fire on a bridge with a sword that raised out of the water and magically into his hand. The magical sword, however, is not enough to save his life, and he dies valiantly on the bridge while saving most of Boston, only to enter Valhalla and find that his father is Freyr the Viking god of summer.

Thus begins an epic adventure with new found friends and two old friends, Blitz and Hearth, who turn out to be a dwarf and an elf who have been protecting Magnus for the last two years while he lived in the streets. Now Magnus and his Valkyrie, Sam, along with Blitz and Hearthstone, must race to stop Ragnarok, a prophesied battle in which the Norse Gods battle at the end of times. Theres also the tiny matter of escaping from Valhalla. So not only does Magnus have to find his sword again, re-tie a psychotic wolf determined to swallow the sun, and outsmart Loki, the god of mischief, he has to do it all before hes caught and taken back to Valhalla by his hall mates and an extremely angry Valkyrie named Gunella. Gunella despises Magnus Valkyrie and is convinced that Sam is evil. She therefore carefully edits Magnus death in a great battle to look as if he did nothing great at all. It's hard to be among warriors when it looks like you dont belong and it's looking more and more like Magnus isnt going to fit in in Valhalla at all. Magnus must resist the temptations of Loki as well. Even when hes offered a reunion with his mother whom he saw die violently in an explosion two years earlier.

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 1: The Sword of Summer is an extremely exciting book in what promises to be an action-packed adventure for readers ages 10 to 100.

R ICK RIORDAN WAS BORN ON JUNE 5, 1962, IN SAN Antonio, Texas and is a graduate of the University of Texas. While teaching in San Antonio, TX, Rick Riordan was honored with the very first Master Teacher Award by St. Marys school. He is the author of over twenty novels for young readers, including the acclaimed Percy Jackson series and Kane series. Riordan not only writes for young readers; he is the author of the highly regarded Tres Navarre series for adults as well. Hes taught school in the San Francisco Bay area as well as Texas and now makes his home in Boston, Massachusetts.

Riordans books have been translated into thirty-seven different languages and have sold more than 30 million copies in the United Sates alone. He started writing in 1997 but did not receive recognition until he wrote the Percy Jackson pentalogy. Most of his novels are part of a series and have been chosen to become motion pictures.

Riordan is in love with mythology, all mythology it seems since he writes of Greek, Egyptian, Norse, and Roman gods and goddesses. He is currently working on the second book in the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard trilogy as well as the second novel in his Trials of Apollo trilogy, the first of which, The Hidden Oracle , was released in May of 2016.

Riordan is married to Becky Riordan, and the couple moved along with their son Patrick to the east coast so that he could attend college. He says his son Haley, who is in high school, was the inspiration for his Percy Jackson series.

Magnus has lived on the streets of Boston for two years. How do you think he was able to get past authorities as a 14-year-old boy?

Magnus is the son of a Norse god. Which god is his father? Compare and contrast Magnus and his father.