{"id":2667,"date":"2014-06-25T13:23:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T13:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2667"},"modified":"2015-03-30T21:37:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T21:37:11","slug":"lokis-wolves-by-k-l-armstrong-and-m-a-marr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2667","title":{"rendered":"Loki&#8217;s Wolves by K. L. Armstrong and M. A. Marr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2675 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Lokis-Wolves.jpg\" alt=\"Loki's Wolves\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Armstrong and Marr have done for Norse mythology what Rick Riordan has done for Greek, Roman, and Egyptian mythology. \u00a0So, Riordan fans who need something to read while they anxiously await the final <a title=\"The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan\" href=\"http:\/\/librarina.wordpress.com\/2013\/09\/04\/the-lost-hero-by-rick-riordan\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Heroes of Olympus<\/em><\/a> book (<em>The Blood of Olympus<\/em>, coming October 7th) should definitely check out <em>Loki&#8217;s Wolves<\/em>. \u00a0Much like the Percy Jackson books, all the action and humor easily disguise the fact that you&#8217;re learning a metric ton of information about mythology.\u00a0 My only complaint is that there&#8217;s not a glossary and\/or pronunciation guide. \u00a0I mean, lots of kids have heard of Thor and Loki&#8230; but that might be as far as their previous knowledge of Norse mythology extends.\u00a0 And, even as an adult with a pretty decent grasp of language, I had a hard time figuring out how to say some of the more exotic names.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Thorsen lives in a small town called Blackwell, South Dakota.\u00a0 He is extremely familiar with the legends of Norse mythology because his family are &#8220;literally&#8221;\u00a0the descendants of Thor.\u00a0 Matt has never been as successful as his brothers in school, but he is becoming a pretty awesome boxer &#8212; which should come in handy now that he is responsible for saving the world.\u00a0 Seriously! \u00a0Ragnarok (basically, the apocalypse) is approaching and Matt is going to have to find a way to work with the descendants of other Norse gods &#8212; some of whom haven&#8217;t traditionally gotten along with Thor, like Loki &#8212; if he wants to find a way to save himself, and the rest of the world, from sure death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armstrong and Marr have done for Norse mythology what Rick Riordan has done for Greek, Roman, and Egyptian mythology. \u00a0So, Riordan fans who need something to read while they anxiously await the final Heroes of Olympus book (The Blood of Olympus, coming October 7th) should definitely check out Loki&#8217;s Wolves. \u00a0Much like the Percy Jackson &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=2667\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Loki&#8217;s Wolves by K. L. Armstrong and M. A. Marr<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-children","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}