Rick Riordan

How well do you know the nine Norse realms? Do you get all those heims mixed up? Well this collection of short stories - each set in a different world and told by a different character from the Magnus Chase series - will help straighten you out. And even if it doesnt youll enjoy reading about how Alex saves Amirs pants Samirah plucks a giants harp Mallory teaches a dragon how to throw down insults and much more. Just watch out for Thor who is running through the whole thing and raising quite a stink.

Ana Dakkar is a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists naval warriors navigators and underwater explorers in the world. Anas parents died while on a scientific expedition two years ago and the only family shes got left is her older brother Dev also a student at HP. At the end of her freshman year her class will be sent on a top secret weekend trial at sea. She only hopes she has what it takes to succeed. All her worries are blown out of the water when on the bus ride to the ship Ana and her schoolmates witness a terrible tragedy that will change the trajectory of their lives.

Loki the trickster god is free from his chains. Now hes readying Naglfar the Ship of the Dead armed with a host of giants and zombies to sail against the Norse gods and begin the final battle of Ragnarok. Its up to Magnus Chase and his friends to stop Lokis plans but to do so they will have to sail across the oceans of Midgard Jotunheim and Niflheim in a desperate race to reach Naglfar before its ready to sail on Midsummers Day. Along the way they will face angry sea gods hostile giants and an evil fire-breathing dragon who happens to be a former acquaintance. But Magnuss biggest challenge will be facing his own inner demons. To defeat Loki Magnus will need to use words not force. This will require finding a magical elixir so deadly that it will either make Magnus Chase powerful enough to out-talk the silver-tongued Loki or destroy Magnus utterly.

The original heroes from The Lightning Thief are reunited for their biggest challenge yet: getting Percy to college when the gods are standing in his way. After saving the world multiple times Percy Jackson is hoping to have a normal senior year. Unfortunately the gods arent quite done with him. Percy will have to fulfil three quests in order to get the necessary three letters of recommendation from Mount Olympus for college. The first quest is to help Zeuss cup-bearer retrieve his goblet before it falls into the wrong hands. Can Percy Grover and Annabeth find it in time?

Who could tell the original stories of the gods of Olympus better than a modern-day demigod? In this whirlwind tour of Greek mythology Percy Jackson gives his personal take on the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and reveals the truth about how they came to rule the world.

Demigod Percy Jackson tells the stories of twelve of the original Greek heroes in all their gory bloodthirsty glory.

As the son of Hades Nico di Angelo been through so much from the premature deaths of his mother and sister to being outed against his will to losing his friend Jason during the trials of Apollo. But there is a ray of sunshine in his life - literally: his boyfriend Will Solace the son of Apollo. Together the two demigods can overcome any obstacle or foe. At least thats been the case so far. Now Nico is being plagued by a voice calling out to him from Tartarus the lowest part of the Underworld. He thinks he knows who it is: a reformed Titan named Bob whom Percy and Annabeth had to leave behind when they escaped Hadess realm. Nicos dreams and Rachel Dares latest prophecy leave little doubt in Nicos mind that Bob is in some kind of trouble. Nico has to go on this quest whether Mr. D and Chiron like it or not. And of course Will insists on coming with.

Its time to face the final trial. The battle for Camp Jupiter is over. New Rome is safe. Tarquin and his army of the undead have been defeated. Somehow Apollo has made it out alive with a little bit of help from the Hunters of Artemis. But though the battle may have been won the war is far from over. Now Apollo and Meg must get ready for the final - and lets face it probably fatal - adventure. They must face the last emperor the terrifying Nero and destroy him once and for all. Can Apollo find his godly form again? Will Meg be able to face up to her troubled past? Destiny awaits.

Lester Papadopoulos was once the glorious god Apollo - now hes an awkward (mortal) teenager stuck on Earth out of favour with Zeus and without his powers. The way out? A series of scary and dangerous trials of course. With two particularly scary and dangerous trials already under his belt Lester must now journey to the Labyrinth - a burning maze that at its centre contains an Oracle whose puzzles may hold the key to a return to godly glory. But the Labyrinth holds a far more deadly threat - the third Roman emperor part of a group of three Roman rulers bent on death and destruction. The mortal and immortal worlds wont be safe whilst they live and only Lester and his demigod friends have the power bravery (and luck) to stop them.

You will get to the Tiber alive. You will start to Jive. I am Apollo. I will remember. The former God Apollo cast out by his father Zeus is having a pretty rough time of it. Well for one thing hes called Lester. But being an awkward mortal teenager is the least of his worries. Though he and his friends (some of them) have emerged from the Burning Maze rescued the Oracle and lived to fight another day they cant escape the tragedy that has befallen them or the terrible trials still to face. So with heavy heart Apollo (OK Lester) and Meg have a triumvirate still to defeat oracles to rescue and prophecies to decipher so that the world may be saved and Lester may ascend into the heavens to become Apollo once again. But right now Caligula is sailing to San Francisco to deal with Camp Jupiter personally and they have to get their first. Or risk its destruction.