
Ranger Nader had always been ordinary enough: a kid with a gaming-gamer sister, cousins who saved him from boredom, and a grandfather who loved maritime tales. When a girl at the park slips him a crystal dog tag, a bolt of lightning wakes a lifetime of lineage: magnetite crystals...

Ranger thinks he's an ordinary 9th grader. Then he inherits a magic ax and learns he's the new Guardian of the Forest, and, even more of a stunner, a demigod in training. Eons ago, another demigod, Gilgamesh--yes, THE Gilgamesh from The Epic of Gilgamesh--used the axe to clear...