Over the Underworld (The Unbelievable FIB Series #2)

by Adam Shaughnessy

Overview

“It’s started. Ragnarok has started. It’s the end of the world.”

It’s been a year since friends ABE and Pru joined Mister Fox’s Fantasy Investigation Bureau to save their hometown from an invasion of Viking gods and giants. Life has been incredibly ordinary ever since.

Then the Norse Allfather, Odin, appears with terrible news: Baldur, his favorite son, has been murdered—the first step in a fated chain of events that leads to Ragnarok.In the second book in the Unbelievable FIB series, ABE and Pru must outrun trolls, explore Asgard and the Viking underworld, and try to outsmart the Queen of the Dead herself to save the world—and survive seventh grade.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781616206581
Publisher:	Workman Publishing Company
Publication date:	09/06/2016
Series:	Unbelievable FIB Series , #2
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Adam Shaughnessy is an author and educator. He received his BA in English from Connecticut College and is currently pursuing his MA in children’s literature from Hollins University. Adam lives in Waterford, Connecticut. Over the Underworld is the second book in the Unbelievable FIB series. Visit him online at adamshaughnessy.com, or on Facebook (Adam Shaughnessy—Author) or Twitter (@adamshaughnessy).

Editorial Reviews

Readers excited by plot twists and riddles will enjoy this book's mythical whodunit and anticipate future resolutions to its cliffhangers.” —Kirkus Reviews

"Just as Shaughnessy does in the first book, he continues to showcase clever, quirky writing and characters that add even more life and effortlessness to the story . . . Shaughnessy excels at weaving in such difficult themes into such an exciting and fast-paced story, and I highly recommend this to those who enjoy myth-inspired tales and rich, entertaining characters.” —Forever Lost in Literature
 

From the Publisher

2016-06-01
In Book 2 of Shaughnessy's Unbelievable FIB series, Prudence Potts and friend ABE must solve another puzzle of mythical proportions: who murdered Odin's son Baldur?A year after Pru and ABE, both white in cover art, helped avert disaster, the two are preparing for seventh grade while keeping a hopeful eye out for Mr. Fox, who heads the Fantasy Investigation Bureau. When Mr. Fox finally reappears, the stakes are high: Baldur's death is the first in a fateful series of events leading to Ragnarok, the end of the world. Trickster Loki appears to be the killer, but Mr. Fox cautions that belief and certainty blind people to magic and that assumptions are "beliefs in different clothes." This theme's also explored back in Middleton, Connecticut, where ABE's father oversimplifies his son's complex reality and a teacher pigeonholes Pru as a troublemaker. While some readers may connect with ABE's and Pru's middle school troubles, many will feel like flipping forward to their more suspenseful adventures in the shadowy underworld, encountering Hel, the clever Queen of the Dead. Readers who skip series opener The Trickster's Tale (originally published as The Entirely True Story of the Unbelievable Fib, 2015) may find themselves immersed in a Viking world they don't fully understand. While the story's typical middle school troubles may drag, readers excited by plot twists and riddles will enjoy this book's mythical whodunit and anticipate future resolutions to its cliffhangers.(Fantasy. 8-12)

Kirkus Reviews