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If you liked the movies Elf and Shrek, you'll love THE ENCHANTED FILES--a magical, hilarious comedy series about fantastical creatures in the modern world by the bestselling author of My Teacher Is an Alien: Bruce Coville!
Any troll worth their farts knows that a proper troll should:
1. Avoid thinking or feeling! (Feelings? Blech!)
2. Love burping and farting! (But who doesn't?)
3. And, most important, despise humans!
But Ned is not just any troll. Even though Ned is nearly seven feet tall, with a nose the size of a pickle, Ned has a heart full of LOVE! A heart that swoons over poetry and craves true friendship!
And when it comes to humans . . . it's complicated. So complicated that long ago, Ned fled the Enchanted Realm for the one place no one would notice a troll hiding in plain sight: NEW YORK CITY. But one human boy--Cody--has noticed. And Cody's snooping leads to a wild and adventure that takes readers from the tunnels underneath Grand Central all the way to the Enchanted Realm (and back again!).
Laugh out loud with all three of Bruce Coville's Enchanted Files--Cursed, Hatched and Trolled --casting a hilarious spell on readers everywhere!
"Bruce Coville is a wizard at telling stories." -- Christopher Paolini, New York Times bestselling author of Eragon
"Science fiction master Coville combines classic tropes with ample humor and an inspired narrative for a magic yet realistic modern fairy tale." --School LIbrary Journal
Author Notes
Bruce Coville was born in Syracuse, New York, on May 16, 1950. He spent one year at Duke University in North Carolina. Coville started working seriously at becoming a writer when he was seventeen. He was not able to start selling stories right away, so he had many other jobs, including toymaker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, Coville became an elementary teacher, and worked with second and fourth graders.
Coville married Katherine Dietz an artist, and they began trying to create books together. It wasn't until 1977 that they finally sold their first book, The Foolish Giant. They joined together on two other books after that, Sarah's Unicorn and The Monster's Ring, and followed them with Goblins in the Castle, Aliens Ate My Homework, and The World's Worst Fairy Godmother.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (1)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 4-6-Imagine gazing up nine feet into the face of a horrifically ugly, wart-filled being who loves smelling his own foot odor and enjoys hearing and breathing putrid, thundering farts! Meet Ned, a troll-complete with royal bloodlines to prove it. Unlike his kinfolk, Ned has been living among humans in the underground caverns of the New York City subway system for hundreds of years. A night watchman for Grand Central Station, he is befriended by Cody, his boss's son, who thinks that Ned is intriguing. As part of a school assignment, Cody interviews Ned and Ned's grandmother and quickly begins to discover unimaginable secrets while also learning more about himself. Cody's adventure takes him deep into Troll Mountain to defeat the troll king, save his great-grandfather, and find Ned's true love. This third volume in Coville's "Enchanted Files" series twists tradition to create a modern fairy tale. This book has parallels with others in the series, with the introduction of two new heroic outcasts for whom readers will cheer. Coville shifts perspectives between lonely but bighearted Ned and Cody, who seems to live in an imaginary world. The narrative, told through diary entries, letters, and emails, can be difficult to follow at times as it toggles between two different stories. However, the overlapping plots result in fireworks for careful readers, as new information is constantly uncovered, forcing them to ponder potential connections. VERDICT Science fiction master Coville combines classic tropes with ample humor and an inspired narrative for a magic yet realistic modern fairy tale. A strong purchase for any middle grade collection, especially where the other installments in the series have been popular.-Mary-Brook J. Townsend, Episcopal Collegiate School, Little Rock, AR © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.