By Louie Stowell
Loki the trickster god gets grounded on Earth as an ordinary eleven-year-old boy and has to prove he can be good, in a snarky, doodle-filled diary he is forced to keep.
As a punishment for his latest bit of chaos, Odin strips Loki of his powers and dumps him on Earth in the body of an ordinary, deeply annoyed eleven-year-old boy, stuck living as the little brother of a very muscly, very cheerful Thor. To earn his godhood back, Loki has to prove he can behave for a whole month, and Odin gives him a magic diary that scores every good and bad deed and talks back when he lies in it. Cue school, homework, a mortal enemy of a teacher, and a trickster god trying, and mostly failing, to resist causing trouble, one gleefully sarcastic diary entry at a time.
If your child's whole Norse obsession is really a Loki obsession, this is the book that hands him the microphone. It's told entirely in his voice, sarcastic, vain and secretly soft, in a Wimpy-Child-shaped diary so stuffed with doodles and jokes that a reluctant reader forgets they're reading. It's the lightest, funniest thing on this shelf and asks nothing hard of a child. And it starts a series, so a child who clicks with it has several more waiting.