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A Bad God's Guide to Being Good

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by Louie Stowell
Louie Stowell
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Packed with doodles and cartoons, here is the diary of Loki as he's trapped on earth as a petulant eleven-year-old—and even worse, annoying thunder god Thor is there, too.
After one prank too many, trickster god Loki has been banished to live as a kid on earth. If he can show moral improvement within one month, he can return to Asgard. If he can't? Eternity in a pit of angry snakes. Rude! To keep track of Loki's progress, king Odin (a bossy poo-poo head) gives him this magical diary in which Loki is forced to confess the truth, even when that truth is as ugly as a naked mole rat. To make matters worse, Loki has to put up with an eleven-year-old Thor tagging along and making him look bad. Loki is not even allowed to use his awesome godly powers! As Loki suffers the misery of school lunch, discovers the magic of internet videos, and keeps watch for frost giant spies, will he finally learn to tell good from bad, trust from tricks, and friends from enemies? Louie Stowell's witty text and hysterical drawings will keep readers in stitches from start to finish.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Loki: A Bad God's Guide

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    May 24, 2022

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781536226959
    Kindle restrictions

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 690
    • Text Difficulty: 3

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      March 15, 2022
      The Norse god of lies gets well and truly served for his misdeeds--stuck in Midgard (Earth) as an 11-year-old boy with one month to mend his ways. Sternly forbidden by Odin to use his godly powers and compelled to record his experiences in a diary that automatically flags every fib, Loki, or Liam Smith, endures massive frustration as every attempt to raise his rapidly falling Loki Virtue Score with good deeds falls afoul of both his ingrained trickster instincts and his general cluelessness about humans and their feelings. (It doesn't help that Thor, "god of bum thunder," comes along disguised as his rude brother.) Readers will have no trouble seeing where, time after time, he goes wrong...or spotting the literally faint signs of a voice of conscience that begin to appear on occasional pages even before he climactically hires himself out to a bully for a humiliating trick on Valerie, the one classmate he's managed not to alienate. Along with flavorsome Norse mythological references, Stowell peppers her whiny protagonist's daily entries with spiky pen-and-ink drawings of mostly White divines and humans, hand-lettered outbursts, and isolated cartoon panels with smart comments in balloons. At last, after Loki helps rescue Valerie from a quartet of frost giants and, more importantly, shows sincere remorse for doing her wrong, the one-eyed Allfather grants his request to stick around Midgard for future adventures in friendship and snack-food discoveries. Salutary reading for anyone who needs steering toward good behavior...or good-ish anyway. (Graphic adventure. 9-12)

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Formats

  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
Kindle restrictions

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:690
  • Text Difficulty:3

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