# The Sea of Trolls

**Author:** Nancy Farmer
**Grade range:** Grades 6–8
**Age range:** 11–13
**First published:** 2004
**Page count:** 459
**Genre:** Fantasy
**ISBN-13:** `9780689867446`
**ISBN-10:** `0689867441`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-sea-of-trolls
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls.

## Themes

- norse mythology
- druids and druidism
- bards and bardism
- brothers and sisters

## Where this book is assigned

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2006-2007 winner (Middle)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2006-2007 winner (Middle)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice past winners, 2006-2007 winner (Middle)](https://vslatoday.org/VRC-past-titles)

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