Percy lashed out, slicing the giant’s spear in half. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“For some time, we had known that we were about to unlock a giant,” remembered Eugene Wigner. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father was a giant man, but his tolerance for alcohol was even greater. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The leprechauns had risen into the air again, and this time, they formed a giant hand, which was making a very rude sign indeed at the veela across the field. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He bowed deeply to the giant and then shoved Theresa at him, like she were a leper. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

‘Tardy as usual, Hippolytos. I hope your news is worth the wait. King Porphyrion should be . The ground between them split. An even larger giant leaped from the earth like a breaching whale. ‘ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

‘You could have got away free. The giant has been tracking me. If you had just left -’ ‘You’re welcome, cupcake,’ the coach grumbled. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The giant cradled his forehead in his hands. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The giant trees blackened the ground ahead of her. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The image of Baba dressed in a white rabbit suit, front teeth sticking out, crunching a giant carrot swims in front of my eyes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She motions for me to follow her into a giant, fancy bathroom, and I immediately run to my little sister, who’s hunched over the toilet. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He's one of the giants, probably six and a half feet tall and built like an ox, but I noticed he rejected the invitations from the Career Tributes to join their crowd. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

So, King Bull had lost the sword to a giant worm with poison teeth. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Dividing was the natural course—fighting the giants one-on-one, but that hadn’t worked so well last time. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“We could do that,” said the giant Baugi, and he stood straighter, and the corners of his mouth tightened into something that almost resembled a smile. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I mean, maybe this is all one giant coincidence. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He helped build the North Carolina Mutual into a national business giant. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Today it’s a giant green butterfly on one hand and a spiral fossil on the other. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe the giants were toasting each other because she and Percy and Jason were dead. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was the only one of us, too, who could do the giant’s turn on the horizontal bar. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The game’s artwork depicted a first-person view of a long dungeon corridor blocked by a hulking blue giant with a large stone ax. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I lay them out one by one along the edge of the counter, rim to rim so they are like a giant pearl necklace. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

It was very hot, a tractor had made giant ruts in the earth, and the ruts had dried hard, so that his feet kept stumbling in. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The giant approached, grinning at her with his solid silver teeth. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The fuss seemed to be about a giant stack of wood. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nyx was older than any Olympian or Titan or giant, older even than Gaea. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The giant squeezed his way into the hut, stooping so that his head just brushed the ceiling. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It made him look like the friendliest giant in the forest. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Wildlings and wights and giants had been all the talk at Eastwatch, but here no one seemed to be giving them so much as a thought. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Blood spurted out from the socket, down his cheeks like giant teardrops. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giant appeared even larger up close than it had from the shore, and peering down into its dark throat, I swore I could almost hear old Cuthbert breathing. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Under the crushed hood lay the tattered, glistening remains of a giant silk cocoon—the trap that Annabeth had tricked Arachne into weaving. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I knew I would miss the giant of the bottoms, for it had played a wonderful part in my life. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, in the gloom, sat a giant even bigger than Polybotes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She sprinted up the giant’s back like a gazelle, sliced her hunting knives across his monstrous blue neck, and created the worlds largest headless ice sculpture. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Their twisted, giant trunks were bunched together like some sort of crowd...or guards. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Even the tale he’d chosen for Bronwyn to read that first night in the forest, about the stone giant, had been a manipulation. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They didn’t know what had happened to Hylla, or Thalia, or the giant Orion. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He’d have six good friends who would admire and appreciate him, and they’d go sailing off into the sunrise to fight giants. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

By moving the joystick left or right, I found that I was able to scroll through a selection of over a hundred different “giant robots.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Receiving a giant serving of beef stew doesn’t hurt my mood either. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Buck, brother Jim, and the rest of the giant boys gathered in front of the Club House. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hang back from the group, near the giant metal appliances. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The fungi were far too elusive, the giant beasts too ferocious. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A giant red-and-gold canopy extended overhead to provide shade from the afternoon sun. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He dodged the trident and, using his ventus to shoot forward, jabbed his sword into the giant’s reptilian leg. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My forehead had developed its own giant pulse and it would not stop beating. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

His breath was ragged, his giant hands all over me, his fingers in me, the sand burning into my back, my brand-new cherub tattoo burning into my belly. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Farmer listens good-naturedly, interpreting Ti Jean’s words as “a giant morality play, a commentary on social inequality.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Caught in the giant screws of the tanker, churned to pieces. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The composition is balanced by two giant clouds on either side. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sandy-brown rabbit reclined on his back beneath the shade of a giant mushroom cap. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And finally, what felt like a full couple of minutes later, the pteranodon’s torso and giant wings. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“You and Loki are going to the land of the giants. We need to get you married off to Thrym before he changes his mind. I want my hammer back.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

A giant column of smoke and ash rose to a height of sixty thousand feet in less than ten minutes. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

To write our names on the map in giant swooping letters. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had enjoyed the day, done a man’s job, and been carried home on the shoulders of a giant of a shepherd called Hal. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She only wished there wasn’t a giant, invisible timer lording over her family, ticking down to when they would inevitably move again. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, the Armada had begun to split, with only the Prince’s giant ship sailing alone closest to the coastline, looking for a landing possibility. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It is tempting to think of this as some kind of giant continent-sized car crash, but of course it happened with imperceptible slowness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

When she opened them again, there stood a giant bed fit for an emperor. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I just had time to say, “Run!” when the doors of the stateroom burst open and there was Luke, flanked by two hairy, giants armed with javelins, their bronze tips aimed right at our chests. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I heard a huge crackling sound like some giant tree being splintered in the forest. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crashed into the giant as a full-grown grizzly, a thousand pounds of pure force. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Seeing something that looked like a pair of giant scissors, I stood up to grab it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She never saw where the giant had come from. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The other giants spread out quickly in a large circle, each giant about twenty yards from his neighbour, preparing for the game they were going to play. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over and over again, Andean stories tell of spirits embodied in stones and giants transformed into natural features. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And there is a giant whoosh of light. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Riding on its back was a red-skinned giant with flowers in his rust-colored braids, a jerkin of green leather, and a drakon-rib lance in his hand. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There were giant patties of dung on the ground, with huge maggots writhing and burrowing in them, but Thor avoided all of them. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Camp Jupiter shouldn’t have to fight alone against the giants. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And so, an hour before dawn, I crouched in shadows at the rocky sea-wall, foot of the giants’ work. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sylvie pointed to the Armenian man with giant keys dangling from his belt who locked the door of the Armenian Quarter every night at 10 P.M. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a holy place. Yield, and we—” The giant bellowed again, a sound that shook the leaves in the trees, and slammed his maul against the ground. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The giants themselves must have found it an interesting experience. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I think he is a giant come among us, here at the end of the world." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She did the windows and the desk, then moved the ladder around Mr. Randolph to the smaller of the two giant bookcases. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“That was another clue. The Bibliomania game was pointing us to the ceiling, too. Because in Dewey decimal mode, the Wonder Dome looks like a giant 3-D version of the board game’s spinner.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

There is an instant between unconsciousness and death, and as the giant pitched onto the rocky path, that instant happened, and just before it happened, the man in black let go. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The statue is powerful. Something about it will help us stop the giants.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Only one shilling to see the giant peach!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It's just a giant green frog—I'm not kidding—wearing a top hat.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The giant bluefin back on the surface, swimming in a big circle around me and the keg. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He changed into a rhinoceros and leaped into battle, but as fast as he could knock down the giants they got up again. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She also felt sure they could never defeat the giants without Bacchus’s help. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

So many giants had gathered there it looked like a cocktail party for redwood trees. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A giant of a man was standing in the doorway. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I think the glimpse of the giant toad undid the last of her trust in me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She felt her Mist disguise burn away until she was just Piper again - one girl in the midst of an army of giants, her jagged bronze blade like a toothpick compared to their massive weapons. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Bloodbeard, the savage commander of the Cats, was a roaring giant with a ferocious appetite for slaughter who made no secret of his disdain for “old greybeards in rags.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The giants roared and bellowed, but there was nothing they could do. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten feet long, it looked more like a giant scorpion than anything. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He heard heavy footsteps, and the twin giants Ephialtes and Otis shuffled out of the gloom. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mom jumps from the taxi in her sling-back pumps and runs past the giant bird of paradise bushes, past the rotting pawpaw tree, and up the three front steps of Abuela Celia’s house. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she is a giant person like in the long-ago stories Halmoni used to tell me so I would be a good girl. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He stayed until the steeple caved in and the giant fork at its apex plunged into the flames, resounding with a mournful clang as it hit the ground. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A bellow of laughter resounded beyond the chamber, and in another moment a giant, red-headed warrior rolled in at the side of Adaon. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, they softened some, but they always remained the chief features of Inigo’s face: the giant parallel scars running one on each side, from temple to chin. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Loki steers the ship, but its captain will be Hrym, leader of the frost giants. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I imagined escorting my giant friend into Camp Half- Blood. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

There aren’t many giants left in the world, and I get lonely from time to time.’ Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She never mentioned the best time to steal a giant. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A giant picture of Chief Crowe in a business suit fills the back wall. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

When we get tired, Connor buys us donuts, and we sit on the swings of a giant park even though it’s chilly. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She took my hand and placed it on her round belly, which rested on her thighs like a giant water balloon. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

There should therefore be, as there are, many cases of binary stars, one component a red giant, the other a white dwarf. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But,” said Baugi, "it was blood compensation for our parents' deaths. Don’t I deserve the smallest measure of it, to show Bolverkr here that I am an honorable giant?” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

All the kinds we had came in giant boxes with names that sounded like real cereals’ weird second cousins—Oaties. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He grew a few inches in eighth grade, and that’s about when he started listening to good music and not wearing those giant wolf face T-shirts. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The molasses was pumped from the ships into the tank through a giant pipe. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Before he could transform himself back into giant shape he was already wounded, and as he changed from bird into giant, a blow of Thor’s hammer parted Thiazi from his life. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then very slowly, the giants were winched up into the air, parallel with the ground. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jon had enough to contend with just now without adding a drunken giant to the mix. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We all look like ants marching in this dust straight into a giant trap where we’ll be stuck or where we’ll be fed poison that we inadvertently spread to the rest of the group. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She saw the giant striding toward the village, his black robes billowing behind him. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Its hull was two giant white hands cupped together, the fingertips touching at the prow. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He’s totally bald, too, with giant brown eyes. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Halfway down the street was a building that looked like it was made out of giant chopped-down trees. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He laid Lyra on the enormous palm, and she gazed up at the giant with perfect confidence, and Pantalaimon sang like a nightingale. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The giant looked around, as if just noticing that a big portion of his army was missing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Ms. Udell leaned against her giant desk, reading to her fourth-grade class from a tattered copy of Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

‘Thank you, brothers, for helping to kill the giant. I need one more favour - an escape. And, believe me, I am properly terrified. I offer you this, uh, lovely ear as a sacrifice.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The giant hit itself in the head again and dropped his sword. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Thor was about to tell her, but before he could speak Tyr said, “His name is Veor, Mother. He’s my friend. And an enemy of the enemies of Hymir and the giants.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

At last, Noah hits the water without a splash as if he’s gathered no momentum on his way down, as if he’s been placed gently on the surface by a kindly giant. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I saw a huge black giant of a man, dressed only in white shorts, swaying on the stairs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faris comes hurtling out of the crowd, his giant body thudding into Julius and knocking him down, a bull ramming through a fence. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Lights wink on, the fountains jump, music plays behind the giant ferns, and the mall is open. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had picked up her wand from the table, and it had emitted a loud squeak and turned into a giant rubber mouse. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There’s a giant picture over her clean white desk of her son, Noah, at his bar mitzvah. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The giant box has been moved, and it’s open too. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

No, I mean an actual fog sails in off the river and settles over Lanternwood, like a giant ghostly ship dropping anchor. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

From where I stood, the moon bloomed like a giant elephant ear off the side of his head. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The strangest sight was the old giant Thoon, who was getting bludgeoned to death by three old ladies with brass clubs - the Fates, armed for war. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I looked at her, then at the giant doorway, then back at her. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

John Henry leaned forward, and the giant folk hero let a rumbling growl escape his chest. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He had a great big bag of cookies in one hand and a green apple with a giant bite out of it in the other. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A clerk shoved in a measure of kernels and the corn whirled inside the case like giant flakes of snow. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The giant’s nylon pants swish as he follows her down the hall. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There would also be no flaming Olympic torch, just a giant, ten-foot-tall flashlight to celebrate the joy of reading under the covers. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The bad news was that it wrenched out of my hand when the giant turned, and I was thrown across the arena, weaponless. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

We unzipped our bags and laid them down like picnic blankets on the grass in front of the giant movie screen in the middle of the field. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Killed by a giant shrimp, Leo thought bitterly. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The giant rabbit looked at me and frowned. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Despite all that he had heard of him—the tales of his wickedness—he suddenly felt a strange affinity for the giant cleric. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was as if giant iron gates had crashed shut and bolted themselves. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mama bursts into our room clasping her hands, with a giant smile on her face. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Chiron, Jason’s mentor at Camp Half-Blood, had assumed that meant that the giants would try to rouse the earth goddess at the original Mount Olympus. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

While Pastor Dames introduces him, Paul Robeson sits like a tender giant, strong and confident. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping is forbidden among human beans?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could sit for an hour or more in her walker without so much as a peep, gazing calmly at her brothers or at guests with her giant brown eyes. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

On Sunday, which felt like a lifetime ago, they had thought she’d be handing them each a giant check. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a sleeping giant covered with ants as the builders went about their task. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rishi stared at her like she’d just told him a giant meteor was headed for the Earth and there was nothing to be done about it. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Instead, Sam looked like a paper doll that had been attacked with a giant hole-punch. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

‘If anyone asks, you took us around the island and showed us the sights. You dropped us at the docks in Pylos. You never saw any giant warship.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I watched Lily begin to roll her hair on giant rollers. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She stood over her friend, sweeping her blade back and forth to keep the giants at bay. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My mom made a giant feast, but we also got chips for party snacks. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Now, fill that giant sheet with foam and let’s get started.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Most of them worked as day laborers in the giant factory farms that surrounded the city. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Before, I had always felt like a giant next to her, but when I lay down next to her on the bed I saw that we were almost the same size. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood watching the lighthouse beam wheel around and wash over everything—a million seabirds sleeping in the pitted cliffs; giant rocks exposed by the low tide; a rotted skiff drowning in the sand. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Steve sprang forward almost as soon as Park landed, swinging his giant fists and clubbing Park in the head. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Ten stewards and one giant made short work of the drifts, but even when the doors were clear again, Jon was not satisfied. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The Saturn Rings was the kind of seedy and dirty place that made you want to dunk your whole body in a giant bottle of hand sanitizer. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Sizwe and I took my tower, my giant monitor, and all the cables and the keyboard and the mouse. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Once they were outside, Emily grabbed his arm and swung it like she was ringing a giant bell. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

All this time, the giant had been tracking Reyna, which meant that even if she died right now Nico and Coach Hedge might stay safe. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Plus a giant turtle shell that turned out to be a precast fiberglass pond lining. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

And he read us passages from The Lord of the Rings, in which the two tiny hobbits, Frodo and Sam, are taken by the evil Gollum into the lair of the giant spider, Shelob. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Situated 11,300 feet above sea level, Namche occupies a huge, tilting bowl proportioned like a giant satellite television dish, midway up a precipitous mountainside. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed so huge behind the microphones, his voice giving his body the stature of a giant. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

My flushed face takes up the giant screen once I step onstage. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The giant metal box was overflowing with glittery, twinkling treasure. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Beethoven takes a relatively simple tune and builds from it a giant tapestry of ideas and musical meanderings. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I bet his lips looked like a giant rubber band before they snapped away from that glass! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stood secretly behind the giant commercial fridge. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy trapped Harry and Miss Goodacre in a corner and gave them a detailed explanation of the difference between the male and female Deinacrida, or giant locust. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And thanks to ReelTok’s giant community of followers, I’m reviled all around the world. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

When Celeste’s giant hair roll reached the top of her ponytail, she grabbed another hair band and wrapped it around the base of the bun. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I also learned that love is a giant pretzel. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I go out into the hall and almost bash headlong into one of the giant metal racks of trays. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I stand on my toes and look over people’s heads at all the soldiers moving the giant herds. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The giant spun around—lightning fast—and grabbed me in midair. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She spun the disc at the giant’s neck. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He glanced back and saw the giant almost within arm’s reach. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Long, two stories high, and crowned with a giant clock tower at its center. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

People think he saw giants when he looked at them, but those of us who’ve been there know the truth. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Does anyone else see a giant bird coming closer that kind of looks like a dragon?—though of course that’s impossible. Dragons no longer exist. Right?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They explained how they’d been tending their herd that morning and discovered a giant sack in the road. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

They were followed by five more serving men, each one carrying a whole cask of mead, a barrel huge enough that each giant struggled beneath the weight of it. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Seven didn’t want to look like a giant baby, but the truth was, she was frightened of her own shadow right now. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But while the voice in my head said one thing, my motions were proving that I could do a giant. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

During the next half-hour, things moved so swiftly and so silently that Sophie, crouching in the giant’s ear, was unable to understand exactly what was going on. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hurled himself at the giant, but Polybotes swept his hand through the water, leaving an arc of black oily poison. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Good morning!” called the black-haired giant, in a voice like an avalanche. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The peak looked to him exactly like a giant fist, with the thumb sticking straight up. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Men locked into giant wheels with their arms and legs spread out were being wheeled past down the hall. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The high windows look like dark eyes watching me, and the shed doors are a giant mouth. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed to her giant pin of the four-member boy band. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ancient, giant mahogany trees, all the trees, the game, everything of the forest was being destroyed, and the land was forced to lie flat, he said, and bare as the palm of his hand. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

During this time, I made myself another dress, but most of the days I spent fashioning a spear to catch the giant devilfish. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giant grinned a sideways sort of grin, a grin that suggested he knew more about the world than he was letting on. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

"North of the Wall, things are different. That's where the children went, and the giants, and the other old races." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A wide, black ribbon of water disappeared into a giant drain. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well shape the boards like giant triangles to make them look like pyramids. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Beside them was drawn a crude giant, the mark of some Umber. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was concealed by a giant wisteria vine and reasonably cool inside. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost without knowing what he was doing, as though drawn by some powerful magnet, James Henry Trotter started walking slowly toward the giant peach. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

A roast beef bigger than a horse, set on a giant platter that took up the entire front room, surrounded by steaming potatoes and parsnips, and loaves of fresh bread. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the giant leader seemed to realize that his troops were throwing away perfectly good equipment. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It had paintings of merpeople on it; they were carrying spears and chasing what looked like the giant squid. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It felt as though he were being sucked down a giant drain. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

If you’re from Iran, imagine a big bathtub on a balcony, center stage, behind a pulpit, under a giant cross, and three grown men in white hospital gowns getting in. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And he pulled Minli up to her feet and pushed her behind one of the giant gnarled stone carvings, kicking his rags over her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It began to run toward the back portables, like someone had pulled the plug out of a giant bathtub. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine holding a giant sign that says don’t be like that. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

All the color returns to my face like a giant beet-red face punch. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The doors were made of cloudy red glass, gaping at her like the mouth of a giant. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She’d burdened him with emotional baggage he didn’t need, and left him so dazed they had almost gotten killed by a giant shrimp monster. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Seven years before, he had been a giant, and now he seemed small. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Americans created gridlock at the entrance to Maracanã Stadium, as one athlete after another bent to take selfies with me holding that giant flag. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He flew deep into the land of the giants, looking for something unusual. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

A few seedy giants of the Strong Arm, who had been captured by the Orkney faction, turned up and said their homage, but the Lancelot contingent was a spate. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giant tear in the sky bathed the beaches and coastline of the Golden Crescent in a red-orange blaze. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“They look like giant wood lice. They eat carcasses of big fish and whales.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They looked like hooded giants; somewhere within their haze, Sierra could make out the edges of long robes draping down from hoods that hung over their faces. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He flicks his wrist and his Stun Stick becomes a giant ax. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I feel my face flush—not because of the giant bamboo utensils and huge painting of Jesus’s Last Supper hanging in the dining room, but because Lola’s grinning at him. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

For Galton, the inadequacy may have felt particularly galling because he too had been meant to become a giant. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Right. Both are acceptable. You told me. This is one big step for you, Jake, but one giant leap for mankind.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The giant slammed her in the ribcage so hard that strands of her jellyfish hair came loose and drifted through the poisoned water. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He left the land of the giants and entered the land of the gods. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

After the bank, we went to Best Buy, which is this giant store filled with TVs and computers and cell phones and things. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Above the main entrance stood the giant statue of Hermes, which I guess hadn’t been activated because it was so high up. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

After four seconds, the crack of thunder sounds like a giant breaking the sky in two. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I didn’t exactly believe in the giant turtle myth. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The domed ceiling, at least another thirty meters above our heads, is lined with two giant screens. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The giant woman wouldn’t stop talking about it, describing the scene in morbid detail for the others. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Garden-lanterns linger above the giant geometric hedges, and blimps carry small candles, gliding along the intricate maze. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Unless they unleashed Death and made it back to camp, the giant’s army would flood into the valley. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The liquid in the giant kettle gurgled and splattered as it ate away at his flesh, and he screamed in what must have been excruciating agony. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

One of the men carried a giant roll of bullets, like you’d see in action movies. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A fire was lit in a giant iron cauldron, and the certificates of 2,300 Indians were tossed into the flames—the first major act of Satyagraha. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

My hair was standing up straight in all directions—a huge sphere of blond fuzz surrounding me like a giant halo. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Air is notoriously uncooperative when it comes to giant, gaping holes in your EVA suit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in golden cloth, and she was as beautiful as her mother-in-law was alarming; she carried two of the tiniest giant thimbles, which she had filled with beer. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“We’ve defeated two of her giants, but that’s only the beginning. The real war will take place in the old land of the gods. The quest will take us to Rome, and eventually to Greece.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Against what she’d seen in her dreams, the only defence would be to prevent the giants from waking Gaia. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

First: The very matter of which we are composed, the atoms that make life possible, were generated long ago and far away in giant red stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was very brave and smart and he tricked the giants and escaped . . . but no sooner was he outside the castle than die Others took him, and drank his hot red blood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When we get home, there’s a mountain of giant sneakers by our front door. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The beam of light moves through the yard to the giant ceiba, thick as six lesser trees. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced down at the flyer, which had a cheesy drawing of a giant smiling egg, with location and cash prize details underneath. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But even the giant computer in our unconscious needs a moment to do its work. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The giant in the corner unfroze and the french fry fell into his mouth. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as the driver pulled up, I hopped out and looked at all the people clustered around the giant bonfire, which was already roaring. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When the wind blew the shades of his window open, it was as if the entire room turned into a giant microscope. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But when we got there, we realized the giant building was their house. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if he were really a giant or just the biggest man I’d ever seen. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She wanted to shout insults at the giant, but her first words were surprisingly calm. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But there were other bones as well, big ones that must have come from giants and small ones that could have been from children. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The floor was gray tile, and the giant space smelled like the inside of a metal can. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The giant termites are all wearing Mutants for World Peace T-shirts. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It darted into his mind that he had heard long ago that there were giants in these Northern countries. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

If either of the two giant white nations pushes the button, white civilization will die! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to picture this, a child-sized lump on top of an actual child, but I could only imagine a giant balloon, carrying her away. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Both the injured giants woke up and leaped to their feet. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if they had been walking across the flat bottom of a giant frying pan, and now they had to somehow climb up out of it. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

We arrived at Nyame’s palace to see animated statues barring the giant doors. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But a more massive star will spend its nuclear fuel faster, become a red giant sooner, and be first to enter the final white dwarf decline. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time the giant snored the ground shook. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Socks flew across the upstairs hallway like giant cushy snowballs. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The giant shadow of Abiyoyo was stomping around the back of the stage. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A gate opened at the opposite end of the stadium and the giant marched out in triumph. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mrs. O’Leary and Daedalus were still locked in combat with the giants, and I could hear shouting in the tunnel. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its point. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Just when I thought all was lost, Velia and Delia burst through the barn doors wielding what could only be described as giant metal baseball bats. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

And besides, we liked to jump from the roof of one car to another and pretend they were giant mushrooms. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stood on fake grass next to a giant fake egg in a giant fake basket. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When the fire truck arrives, Saucepan Lynn folds her arms as she looks up at the giant pine tree in the middle of our neighborhood. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The two tiny ones, confronted by this giant, kept a watchful silence. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The guy was blond too, a giant with a giant smile. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like one of those saints the Doctorita is always praying to, like the Virgin of Banos in elegant robes and a giant crown who does miracles for desperate people. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The logo was a cartoon of this giant bodybuilding bulldog wearing wraparound sunglasses and smoking a cigar and flexing his muscles. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Wind and water had worn crevices in the earth, like the gougings of a giant’s fingers. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Good giants have bad stories. Damasen was created to oppose Ares.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Piper leaped forward and slashed her sword across the back of the giant’s knee. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It felt as though a giant hand were holding my face underwater. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

There were days that August when I felt as though God had lowered a giant glass lid over the whole steaming Bay. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many times when I walk around Manhattan I feel as if I’m walking among giant sequoia trees in the California Redwoods. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Even the bosslings wouldn’t stand a chance against the giant floating towers that guarded the foothills. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t see them. One sounded like a giant, the other sounded like a mouse.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Beside the funeral pyre the gods had made for the remains of the giant, two huge orbs sat, filled with light. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Benji was shooting hoops in the driveway under a giant spotlight. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

A car that looked like a giant red boot on wheels. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

What I did not expect to see was a giant metal ball blasting into the gymnasium, scattering players like tenpins. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Both theories lack observational evidence: no one has ever seen a giant tortoise with the earth on its back, but then, no one has seen a superstring either. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hyperborean giants kept appearing in the strangest places. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The giant glass building was full of shadows and light, and she fanned herself as the steamy heat smothered her face. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

‘Even so,’ she said, defending her own race, ‘I think it’s rotten that those foul giants should go off every night to eat humans. Humans have never done them any harm.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Will the baby grow up to be a giant like you and Xan?” he asked. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I scrambled over a giant trunk slick with moss, and the path took a sharp turn. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But Dimple apparently wanted them to climb this giant hill, so Rishi did, with minimal grunting. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The robot was heavy, but she was no trouble for the giant animal. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Barely fifty feet away, the giant Spirit Bear stood motionless in the rain. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

His men could bring the giant down, he knew, but not without cost. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Holly scaled the great staircase, ever vigilant for the giant manservant. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

On the river there had been wonders to behold: giant turtles, ruined cities, stone men, naked septas. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Yeah, Andre the giant and the dwarf, hold on a sec, I want a word with you." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ymir slept, and while it slept, it gave birth: a male and a female giant were born from beneath Ymir’s left arm, a six-headed giant born from its legs. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

But a glance through the giant hole that the rhino made in the wall stops me cold. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Not to mention, she’d probably get eaten by a giant wolf monster. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Slung between the two giants of modern biology, he was inevitably haunted by an acute sense of scientific inadequacy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Who else among royalty, in his time, would have had the giant talent to write Shakespeare’s works? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed in the ruin, prowling where long-dead giants prowled, my heart aching to know what the strangers were doing now, up at the meadhall. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pushed back giant ferns and leaped through the open space before they snapped back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes as the gladiator giant thrust his javelin. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It looked like a giant can of frozen orange juice stuck there on its side. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel raced through the battle on Arion’s back, disappearing in the Mist whenever a giant came close, then appearing behind him and stabbing him in the back. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Halfway across the dock, three giant eagles descended in front of them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

‘Jack is the only human bean all giants is frightened of,’ the BFG told her. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snow spilled from its doorways, collecting in giant heaps on the sidewalk. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The biggest was a drawing of the giant farm implement shed that Deere & Company was proposing to put up on the block where the old brickyard had been. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ice moved smoothly around the floor, thin legs wide apart, head bobbing, the ball moving from his hand to the floor and rushing back to his light palms as if it was a giant yo-yo. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

His father had talked of him often: the peerless Robert Baratheon, demon of the Trident, the fiercest warrior of the realm, a giant among princes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If perhaps it was a secret hour in which men rose like giants from dragon’s teeth and, while the women slept, clustered in their kitchens. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t let that young giant come near me, he worries me worse than mosquitoes,” whispered the old lady to Amy, as the rooms filled and Laurie’s black head towered above the rest. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved banging in the paint like a giant pinball and fighting for the rim. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The giant shadow crow cawed as they soared above us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Working in a giant tower with hundreds of people was almost beyond his imagination. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jake’s heels were balanced on the rungs of his chair and his giant hands folded between his knees in a waiting and childlike attitude. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The land changed to sandy fields and low scrub, and I began to despair about reaching the giants before the newlyweds celebrated their first anniversary. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The giants toasted each other with golden goblets as if they’d just won an important fight. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Tyson untangled himself from the giant whom he’d pummeled into unconsciousness. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Two giant doors stood ajar and I breathed a sigh of relief. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The dead man continued to float in front of us like a giant water-logged voodoo doll—a bad omen to be sure. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The malls seemed so phony—all that glitter and shiny stuff—giant green balls and red ribbons hung from the ceiling, with signs like, The Magic of the Season Is at Midtowne Mall. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were indeed coming, with Hymir at their rear, urging them on: all the giants of that part of the world, a many-headed monstrous bunch, the giants of the waste, misshapen and deadly. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I dream about last night, the crackling sun of morning, and the shivering giant of a man. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

‘When a ladybird is walking across a leaf, I is hearing her feet going clumpety-clumpety-clump like giants’ footsteps.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giant held out his hand, which was nearly as big as Will’s head. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I wait, then take one giant step sideways. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It sounds like a giant wall has cracked, and soon it will come tumbling down. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The lady at the visitors desk has a giant hairdo, and she doesn't smile. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blinking and squinting helped him realize: The searing light came from a giant screen at the front of the room. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

That last part was because a panicked Hyperborean giant stumbled backward and sat on top of him. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Tom Hamilton labored like a giant, not only with his strong arms and rough hands but also with his heart and spirit. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Connor rummaged through the junk while Zion and I tried to read some old documents we found stacked in a giant heap in one corner. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Alexa runs down the stairs and ambushes me with a giant hug, too. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The berries were of a giant size, large as walnuts and in full-blown ripeness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

This giant was another child of Gaea—a creature of the earth so malevolent and powerful, he radiated his own gravitational field. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Trolls and frost giants and mountain giants all tremble when they see Mjollnir, for it has killed so many of their brothers and friends. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The giants and snake women were already recovering from their surprise. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Oh my—!” shrieked Hermione, as she and Ron caught up with Harry and gazed upward at the giant now trying to seize people through the window above. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The lines sparked and sent a jolt of electricity up the giant’s backside. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The giant hands squeezed me around the middle, lifting me into the air. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

A giant hand fell on my shoulder as I reached the exit. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I contemplated my chances and fanned a dim ember of hope in my heart as I sat in the sun, reeking like a giant match. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

‘But the others will be whiffling off to all sorts of flungaway places like Wellington for the booty flavour and Panama for the hatty taste. Every giant is having his own favourite hunting ground.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What is that even going to do? Huh? Really. Say you walk into the senator’s office. Say you actually talk to a giant room of politicians. How does that change anything?” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

My brother was now full grown, a graceful giant with uncanny spring in his legs, and considered one of the best basketball players in the city. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Hollister led them to a round table decorated for Halloween with a giant paper spider, a witch’s cauldron, and cotton-strewn webs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It also made sense to locate the giant storage tank in the North End, near the freight yards and wharves where the molasses could be poured into barrels and shipped to various distilleries. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

But if I told Papa the truth, he’d follow me around all night with that giant flashlight he keeps under his seat, and somehow I felt that might kill the atmosphere. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sitcom families—married parents in giant houses, with framed family portraits lining the staircases. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Kostakis Brothers Trucking sent three giant dump trucks to move everything from gym to warehouse free of charge. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

A giant sucking sound filled the clearing, like air rushing toward a hole. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Anya startled away from it, and the domovoi vanished from the railing as Sigurd rode his giant horse into the barn. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Like the shadow of a giant’s foot held just over my head. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Sculpted by the intense solar rays, glowing a radioactive shade of turquoise, the towers reared like giant shark’s teeth out of the surrounding rubble as far as the eye could see. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Their giant family offered them glasses of cool lemonade with sprigs of mint stuck in like straws. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Across the room I spotted a giant fireplace. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

When they came home, everybody was having a conniption about a big giant fight in the village over who got whose share of their horrid meat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I half hoped Kronos had been squashed under that Hyperborean giant’s butt, but I knew better. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The giant's hair went up faster than dry tinder, spreading down his head and across his body until the heat of the bonfire made Hazel wince. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I held out the flask to the giant, my hand trembling. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Connor and I watched in disgust as a busboy mixed a giant vat of coleslaw with his hands, his arms buried in it all the way to his biceps. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Did a giant barf cotton candy in here or what?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Maya, whatever happened to that giant game of dots you were working on?” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I thought the thing in her hands was an umbrella until she cranked the pump and the shotgun blast blew the giant twenty feet backward, right into Nico’s sword. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see the giant or any fetterlings now, but I could still hear the rustling, rattling skirmish. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

One of the two men, a great tall beanpole, looked as if a giant had pressed his face flat with his thumb. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The giants have risen—all of them, stronger than ever. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It’s got a giant smudge of pizza sauce on it because it makes him stress-eat. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The giant iron monster opened its mouth wide—wider than a mouth should ever, ever open—and it bellowed, allowing a maelstrom of brand flies dripping with green venom to erupt from its mouth. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In his right hand, and very carefully, as though it contained something infinitely precious, he carried the giant glove. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beige computers sat on some of the tabletops and a row of beanbag chairs slouched along one wall like giant gumdrops. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Before us looms the theater room’s giant Cube, a four-sided projector screen with one side pointed toward each block of seats. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Helen found them the next day, scattered over the lawn like a giant’s idea of fertilizer. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl is standing by her tree, watching the giant bird chase around my stupid dog, and she’s laughing. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The giant’s eyes were closed, and he was regularly snoring: that was the rumble-hum and whistle that Thor had been listening to. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He roared into battle, and in the bellowing thumping rough and tumble that followed, one sleeping giant after another either got stepped upon or kicked. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can’t let things get out of control,” the giant agreed. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It crinkles as I pull off the rubber band and roll the paper open like a giant map. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He was stuck in Alaska, the giant’s home territory, out of contact with his old friends just as his memories were coming back. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A blaze of orange light outlines a giant cloud. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I put up a giant fight, but a part of me was scared, too. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She was convinced they needed Damasen’s help, but the giant had turned them down. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She kisses my cheek, then turns to the wall and gives it one giant push. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Village women, marching with giant plastic basins balanced on their heads, parted as we rolled past. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two giant tears welled in his eyes and went tumbling to the ground, boiling two patches of moss clear away. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

As she finished casting her spell, a giant stone wall appeared, completely covering the chamber’s only exit. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Looking down, Harry saw Grawp the giant meandering past, swinging what looked like a stone gargoyle torn from the roof and roaring his displeasure. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He took a giant step forward and stood chest to chest with Aidan. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m the smallest giant in the world. What can I do for you?” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tunic must have belonged to a giant. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ancient, giant mahogany trees, all the trees, the game, everything of the forest was being destroyed, and the land was forced to lie fiat, he said, and bare as the palm of his hand. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The paper giant I maybe could have ignored as a one-off freaky occurrence in a freaky place with freaky creatures. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He’d earned the job of Assigner because of his quick mind, his swift intelligence, his fertile imagination, his ability to see two moves ahead as if life were a giant checker or chess game. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah,” said Dr. Meescham, coming up behind them, “you are studying my poor, lonely giant squid.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I’m pulling it on as Bren sighs, walks away, and comes strolling back with a giant pair of black Beatles boots. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And next to the Spider, there was a giant Ladybug with nine black spots on her scarlet shell. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Next to him sat the largest giant I’d ever seen, much larger than the one on the floor fighting the centaur. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Borrowed it, Professor Dumbledore, sir,” said the giant, climbing carefully off the motorcycle as he spoke. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She tells of a giant across the sea who has the strength of thirty thanes. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wen was soon talking without prompts from Pete about his giant China, about the provinces, and poverty, the backwardness of people and leaders. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The notes were so deep and strong it felt like we were sitting inside a giant bass fiddle. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But do these disgusting giants go to every single country in the world?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all he saw were giant tin tubs, long tables for folding, and clothes left to dry overnight on racks taller than he was. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Why there was a garden hose on the roof, Frank wasn’t sure, but every time the giants sent up a cannonball, Percy summoned a high-powered blast of water and detonated the sphere in midair. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Okay, we’re in a body. Most likely—given the fish breath—it’s some kind of giant demonic whale. So. Let’s think about anatomy and stuff.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Yet he strutted about as if he were a giant, with his plump little legs spread wide and his plump little chest puffed out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Three at a time, the armored giants bore down on Boots and Brute. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It looked like a giant Hershey’s Kiss, about the size of his fist. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I’m sliding a piece of wood under a giant saw when he does this, and I nearly lose a finger. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Brer scrambled to his feet and hopped in front of me with one giant leap. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But pruning is usually done with special shears that look like giant scissors or with a small saw on a long pole. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Overhead, terns and Cape pigeons wheeled, and a giant snow petrel flew on snow-white wings; the birds were a sure sign that open water was near. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Three emergencies, actually: first, Lawrence recognized that he must spend more “in order that this giant new machine may really be safe.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The images she’d seen had almost overwhelmed her: Percy and Annabeth helpless at the feet of those black metal doors, the dark giant looming over them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Like when it hurts to think about selling the house, she tells herself how that bad feeling is just one dot in the giant Seurat painting of our lives. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t got six giant steps away when a boy stuck his head out the door and yelled, “Hey, Slim, is this your paper?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

A giant screen showed motorcycle racers coming straight at you. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are covered with lush giant trees that shadow the ground, making the flame bursts seem particularly dramatic. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The giant was so big that by comparison Thor might have been a beetle or an ant. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

But still it’s frightening to realize that my fate is in the hands of men who are not the giants I once thought them to be, men who don’t know all the answers. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had a giant scar slanting down each cheek and seemed like no one to trifle with. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And dinosaurs standing around drinking coffee, staring up at the giant meteor soaring through the air, commenting on how pretty it is. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The giants in the hall all laughed at this, and none of them laughed louder than Hymir. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The giant exploded into a roaring hurricane of insects and rammed the front windows. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It just did what it wanted, like a giant cat. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“There’s a giant art festival in Fountain Hills next weekend,” I said. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“A giant snake . Someone would’ve seen . Harry, however, pointed at the word Hermione had scribbled at the foot of the page. “ Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

When Safer’s mom goes into her office to put her camera away, Candy quickly pops a giant SweeTart into her mouth. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Grawp came lurching around the corner of the castle; only now did Harry realize that Grawp was, indeed, an undersized giant. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was a different universe down there, the water shining with flecks of moving light and kudzu vines draped between the pine trees like giant hammocks. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mafia giant ran towards the Parthenon and stumbled inside, flattening several Earthborn under his feet. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She watched as the giant made Percy sip the broth. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The giant’s weight made the boat ride low in the water, and the dwarfs rowed the boat onto the rocks just under the surface. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The holograms display a giant photo of me stepping out of Hideo’s home at night, of him leaning in to kiss me, of his hand still holding on to mine. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Imagine riding a giant steel brush over a bed of gravel all day. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The gold on his body was definitely smoking now, attracted to the catapult’s payload like iron to a giant magnet. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I was that dude walking down the street holding a giant phone to my ear with the aerial fully extended, talking to my friend. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My elementary school was the tiniest of midgets, compared to the giant that was Iona. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was like a giant bowl, cracked in half, the other half washed out to sea. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The capitol building sprawled gray concrete like a regal queen spreading out her petticoats, and its giant dome glittered pure gold in the morning sun. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘I will bring down this chamber!’ the giant thundered. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They could see the king of the giants, sitting on the highest chair, at the end of the hall. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The back of the truck is two giant tanks, their sides dotted with hoses and metal boxes of tools. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Yes. There is always at least one good one—monsters, Titans, giants.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Over them both loomed a giant in armor made of stone, but when he opened his visor, there was nothing inside but darkness and thick black blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Sophie saw a flash of pale red go darting towards the giant’s face. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The circle of water slowly calms down, having absorbed the giant wave. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was plenty of everything, and there were a lot of jokes about the interns’ giant appetites. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

‘Okay, do not call me Aquaman. That’s even worse than water boy! Leo turned to Jason and Piper. ‘You guys remember the giant Archimedes grabber arm I told you I was building?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She sits up straight and tall and shows off them giant teeth of hers. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Matt takes off like he’s got a cape flying behind him and a giant S for Seventh Grade Student Council President emblazoned on his shirt. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I was thinking that it was very strange for me, a boy from Virginia, to be lying beside this giant Negro out on the ocean. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath him, Loki saw a huge grave mound, and sitting on it, plaiting a dog collar, was the hugest, ugliest ogre of a giant he had ever seen. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

On the surface of the warrior’s breastplate, murky faces appeared and submerged—giants, Cyclopes, gorgons, and drakons—all pressing against the armor as if trying to get out. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I look back and forth between them: Golly, the lovable giant, and Britain, who might have an issue with woman worship but is really very sweet. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Dangling a short distance away was a giant, heavy, and very sharp chandelier. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They consorted with giants and ghouls, stole girl children in the dead of night, and drank blood from polished horns. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And at the front, on a raised stage, were the first two baby grand pianos I’d ever laid eyes on, their giant hardwood tops propped open like black bird wings. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“And he always makes me a giant cake for my birthday.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Forty feet away, Percy bent over the giant king, trying to yank a sword from the braids of his hair. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They peered over the bridge and saw the Antarctic archipelago at their feet, craned their necks and saw a giant metal star overhead. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Maddox and Bunny the giant mastiff accompanied us back across the field. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The giants were healing, getting stronger by the minute. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My life felt like it had been tied into a giant knot, one that would take a long time to untangle. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The giant crumbled from the top down: his head, his chest, and finally, his legs collapsed. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then the wheat, trampled to the ground as if a giant had stomped through. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

My boots seem to leave prints, and I truly feel like I’m walking over a giant piece of toasted bread. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I could hop back and forth, or straddle it like a giant. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Every now and then, the pilots of the helicopters would catch a glimpse of a small girl wearing glasses crouching in the giant’s right ear and waving to them. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like all great communicators, he loved language: he wrote a whole book about the word ‘serendipity’, another about the phrase ‘standing on the shoulders of giants’, and he co-edited a volume of social science quotations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Standing in the center of the cobbled road inside the iron gate is a giant. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

But on that day I felt like a giant, like nothing could stop me or break me down. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Or to offer her a giant eggbeater wrapped in brown paper, she doesn’t know why. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they could be that resilient, then I could move to a different part of San Jose without making such a giant fuss about it. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I shut myself in the closet to get eye level with my giant heart. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Standing at the end of the block was my giant dog and a small figure in black armor. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

For them I believed I could don armor and charge at giants, even if I saw only windmills. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the strange light, beautiful plants grew—giant orchids, star-shaped flowers, vines bursting with orange and purple berries that crept among the crystals. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The transport sphere plowed along the trench, past all the fortified city’s defenses: walls, moats, machicolations, crossbow cannons, drawbridges, bristling spear pits, bladed gates, and giant mechanical grinders. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Each time the giant’s smoky veil started creeping around one of them, Nico was there, slashing through it, drinking in the darkness with his Stygian blade. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Annabeth had mentioned it too, back in August, when she’d speculated that the giants might be part of the new Great Prophecy— what the Romans called the Prophecy of Seven. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Too late, awareness and fear dawned in the giant’s face. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

An aerie of giant eagles could’ve done manoeuvres under the vast ceiling. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A friendly Cyclops and a giant dog were looking for him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It hit true - right in the middle of the giant’s chest. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In front of the legionnaires, like a line of giant dominoes, stood their red and gold shields, each the size of a refrigerator door. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

‘So what you soldiers has to do is to creep up to the giants while they is still in the Land of Noddy and tie their arms and legs with mighty ropes and whunking chains.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a thought, as the twin whose legs never failed her, she shifted the basket to her left hip and took a giant step over a pyramid of oranges. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watched some TV and ate a giant bowl of the most perfect tart green grapes in the world. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Lightning had melted all the weapons in the giant’s hair. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In a few seconds, the nine galloping giants were out of sight. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the part where the giant was going to ask if Will was lost, if it might be a good idea to try to find his parents. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Leo was pretty sure it would take more than a few matches to set that giant ablaze. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Most terrible of all was the roar coming from the center of the earth, that hard-breathing giant that was heard at length, filling the air with fear. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the door of the bar crashed open and two giant figures came hurtling out. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I thought most giants could only be destroyed by a god and demigod working together.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I drew suntanned young giants in white dinner jackets, seated at white tables alongside turquoise swimming pools, toasting each other, rather excitedly, with highballs made from a cheap but ostensibly ultra-fashionable brand of rye whisky. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Immediately, the blade flickered, showing the dark shape of the giant Clytius moving through a corridor, snuffing out torches. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Gray smoke formed a giant cloud that hung over the buildings and expanded outward like paint slowly being spilled onto an empty canvas. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“So the Titans lost. Fine! That was part of the plan to wake Gaea! Now the Earth Mother and her giants will destroy the mortal world, and we will totally feast on demigods!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Jenny was clutching a giant tumbler of coffee. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She charged to the railing and leaped at the giant. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They passed through the mouth of the wolf and up the stairs, and dragged her down the walkway through the corridor with its giant glass enclosure. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A giant wooden raft the size of a boxing ring floated in the night sky, a rope dangling over its edge. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And with that, High John the Conqueror soared into the sky on his giant crow, hooting and hollering as he cut through smoke and flame to confront the swarm of brand flies racing toward us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Apparently these giant roaches had maintained their speed with their size. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the bears had never seen mountains, apart from the cliffs on their own island of Svalbard, and fell silent as they looked up at the giant ramparts, still so far off. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I heard my mother enter her kitchen, her realm in the castle the giants had built. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wave goodbye to each other, and suddenly, a giant bubble of hope begins to well up inside me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I'll keep some in the rover for easy access, but the rest will be outside in the giant freezer that is this planet. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clarence turned one giant wheel, spun another, and cranked a third. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

At a restaurant at the lake’s edge, we eat our fill of fried fish and share a giant bottle of Coca-Cola, which the Doctorita never lets us have for fear of cavities. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we went as far as the giant burial ground where Grandfather rested. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had to make it across, too, before the giant caught us. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Others tried to run and got trampled by hellhounds or giants. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There are at least four giant containers of pastas and two massive meatball subs on the table, not counting the empty packaging that my brothers already cleared out. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He pulled a sheet of paper out of one of the cardboard folders and held it up for the giant to see. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know exactly where to look, but I have a pretty good idea. The giant’s name is Alcyoneus.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

As far as I could see, there were no big trees like the giant oak that sat outside my bedroom window at home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Six giants cried in glee and rushed forward. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The burning sky crackled overhead as we slammed through the giant palace door and skidded to a stop in Nyame’s hall. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He’d learned that the giants planned to use him as some kind of blood sacrifice to awaken Gaea. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Not convincing. Why don’t you go chain up a giant blond?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Listen, we’re going down the middle of the train — Lee Jordan’s got a giant tarantula down there.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I aimed at the giant’s head, but though it was larger than my two fishes and a good target, I missed. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re just trying to make the world a little sweeter,” Duke said after the Dog Squad rolled the bad guy down the slope and turned him into a giant snowball. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

As she was almost past the island, she spied a giant fig tree with long roots snaking down to the water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why would she take his children?—and all the while, the giant lizard on the screen he’s trying to avoid is my one question: Why didn’t you come with us? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Inmates awaiting trial or those serving shorter terms stay in local jails, such as New York City’s giant Rikers Island complex, near La Guardia Airport. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inside of the giant sphere was completely hollow, and its curved interior surface served as the club’s bar and lounge area. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Between this hate queen and the giant chasing him, he had no idea what to do. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I think about the giant gaping hole in my heart, exactly the size of Ben’s fist. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The flame of a giant sun had given way to the soft blackness of space but external variations mean little in the business of checking the workings of experimental robots. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“RAWWWR!”The giant staggered backward, blue blood trickling from his nostrils. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Each room was furnished in gold and crimson, her bedroom also decorated with a giant tapestry along one wall, with couches and deep-cushioned chairs scattered in a tasteful manner. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

After much thought the old man convinced himself that it was not the god-raven that he had visited, but rather a giant canoe made by men. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Greek, Roman, it doesn’t matter,” the giant said easily. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She tried to rise, and agony seized her and squeezed her like a giant's fist. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I have already told you that all Headmasters are giants, and this one was no exception. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Me? I feel like a kid getting knocked down by giant waves.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The building where Dray’s having his party is like a giant Petwo drum that pulses with a heavy rhythm. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Guys, this is bigger than Daedalus’s laptop. If there’s a Roman attack on Camp Half-Blood, these secrets could save the camp. They might even give us an edge over Gaea and the giants!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When he turns on the engine, it sounds like a giant with a bad cough. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The angel folded up his giant wings and disappeared as Joseph bolted up from bed. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Three short guys took huge fish—big like they were baby sharks or something—and hacked the heads off with giant knives. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I’d hoped that the giant, overhanging tower at 19,000 feet— christened the Mousetrap by some wag on Fischer’s team—had toppled by now, but it was still precariously upright, leaning even farther over. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The giant snake hisses and bares it fangs, its beady yellow eyes glaring. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Miles was just trying to make me laugh. Everyone was laughing like it’s all some kind of giant joke. But I don’t think it’s funny.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

A giant monstrous arm swung back and demolished the walls to the parson’s bedrooms. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You can get yourself a giant fancy coffee or frozen yogurt or something.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A giant born to oppose the twins, Apollo and Artemis, but, much like Artemis, Orion rejected his destiny. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I climbed up into the giant chair and sat back and just stared at her. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was about twelve feet tall—a respectable height for a Cyclops, but only half as tall as other giants Percy had dealt with. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In back of the palace was a giant lake. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The giant used his spear in a whirlwind of swipes, jabs and slashes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“A giant as protector? Even Dalla could not boast of that.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, these giant black clouds were rolling in, and lightning was glittering in the distance. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The giant Polybotes backed up uncertainly, but Percy knew the battle wasn’t over. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She must have just seen the giant mess and dropped her bags in horror. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone with cheekbones and giant eyes and really wet lips. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The gryphons arrived in a wave of angry beaks, talons, and wings, swarming around the giant, trying to get under his legs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It would have been awesome to come home with a giant check for ten million dollars. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bones, breads, bottles, and bowls lay scattered everywhere, as if voracious giants had gathered to dine. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She built castles with Maybeth, decorating them with bits of shell and colored stones, telling stories about princesses and giants. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jon has given up his eye- damaging geometrical shapes and is painting pictures that look like commercial illustrations: huge Popsicles, giant salt and pepper shakers, peach halves in syrup, paper dishes overflowing with french fries. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was small for a giant - perhaps twenty-five feet tall, which would give him enough room to swing the massive sledgehammer in his hands. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I swallowed and took three giant steps back. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Whenever Tally’s feet slipped, the bracelets got all hovery and caught her fall, like some friendly giant plucking her from danger and swinging her to a halt. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

‘If the giants want our blood, the last thing we need is a boy and a girl going down there together. Remember? They want one of each for their big sacrifice.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Matilda and Lavender shook their heads and continued to gaze up at the giant. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had two giant slices and two Cokes by the necks of the bottles; she had two slices and a Coke. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There were those of the gods who felt that they should have let the giant get even closer to finishing the wall before Thor killed him. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He put his headset on and glanced at the time readout on the giant center screen at the front of the room. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most farmers wear a trucker’s cap marked with the logo of an agribusiness giant. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the glow of the ball, Aru could make out the shapes of two giant dogs. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I was ready to die, but someone picked me up and carried me down the stairs....I thought it must be a giant, they were so strong!” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I knew I couldn’t take on this giant water-bed salesman alone. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The demon spun around as Sargon, now a giant winged lion, swooped down on it, burying his claws into its back and fangs into its neck. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The black water was lapping against his giant shell, and the twinkling fishes were swimming around him. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The sound of wings, like a giant deck of cards being shuffled, filled the air. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The fate of the inner solar system as the Sun becomes a red giant is grim enough. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He nods to the round wooden table that has so many scars running through it you could almost believe it had once been a giant’s battle shield. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“My friend Jason has a giant aquarium in his living room, and he didn’t get fined.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

At night, a giant beam of light like an endless sword scraped from one end of the sky to the other. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The entrance of the cave sat about seventy feet down the cliff face - a circle of black in the chalky yellow rock like the hole of a giant pencil sharpener. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

All of them have toted more mental baggage and dealt with more hardship than they care to remember, yet they carry themselves with a giant measure of dignity, humility, and humor. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road on the right would take me to the giants. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The day was sunny and cool, and people were biking, relaxing on benches under the giant American elm trees, and playing Frisbee on the lawn of the National Mall. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

His face appeared on one of the meeting room walls, which was really a giant plasma-screen video monitor. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

When the Sun, ruddy and bloated, becomes a red giant, it will envelop and devour the planets Mercury and Venus—and probably the Earth as well. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pipes formed one giant rectangle, with no way for any water to enter the system. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“You will go north and find Thanatos in the land beyond the gods. You will free him and thwart the plans of the giants. Beware Gaea! Beware her son, the eldest giant!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then came a sound that stole the breath right out of me—the roar of a giant bear. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Malia was out ahead of us already, her chin high and her smile giant as she caught up with her father and waved. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The giants’ special effects machines had gone into overtime, laying planks across ruined support beams so the arena had a proper floor again. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A plume of red soared up in the middle of town, tendrils of fireworks drifting down like the leaves of a giant willow tree. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then there was a sigh, a rustle, a snap of one incautious twig, and the clearing of the giant lime tree was as empty as it had been before the days of man. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Regrettably, the giant still had his smug smile. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They even have a fireplace and a giant black piano in the living room. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Jason charged to help him, but the giant blocked him with his huge trident. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I’m expecting this giant rat to take a big bite out of my grandfather’s leg, but instead he asks, “Hey, Trub—got any grub?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

After Clayton said good-bye, we fastened on our hats and veils and went out to the hives, bearing armloads of black crepe material cut in giant squares. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had no interest in spoils of war - no desire to let any part of the giant survive. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Though a little lower at the withers and nearly half a foot shorter, nose to tail, Seabiscuit seemed a cumbersome giant in comparison. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They must’ve been searing hot, but the giants picked them up with their bare hands. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The crew gathered for a hurried meeting on the foredeck - mostly because Percy was keeping an eye on a giant red sea serpent swimming off the port side. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then out past the island of Formosa, looking like a giant, well- fertilized gardenia leaf, and across the Pacific, over Hawaii, and now time for California once again. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man went running to the bridge and in a moment returned with a giant bottle of sake. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The brother took a giant step back from me and shook his head. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a giant painting in Arabic script across from the doorway. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sure he wanted a giant as his wingman, even if that giant could cook a mean bowl of stew. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In Midgard they would make their homes, protected from giants and monsters and all the dangers that wait in the wastes. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Worse yet, she’s got a giant white stain spread halfway across her face like somebody tossed acid on it or something. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

"That it's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t have been too freaked out, because he’d avoided turning into a giant goldfish. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Nicole was on the sidelines the following January as I performed flawless giants in competition as part of my bar routine. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The resulting hole evoked a giant grave and exuded the same musty chill, but this was not unwelcome for it provided workers with relief from the intensifying summer heat. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Twig rifled through our egg-building materials and stuffed one of the giant marshmallows in her drink, and Dari and I followed suit. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As the giant king ran towards Piper, Percy grabbed the tip of Porphyrion’s spear and forced it down into the ground. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Connor gives me a tour of the house, which is two stories high, not including his giant bedroom in the attic. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It sounds as if giant speakers are suddenly on the sidewalk directly outside the café. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He straightened in his chair and stretched back, making a giant W with an arm up on either side of his head. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Myrtle . . . what lives in the lake, apart from the giant squid?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Lord Bacchus, are we going to kill these giants or what?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And she went to the end of the alley and pointed up at a giant domed roof rising in the distance. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A sliver of sun broke through like a spotlight and traveled slowly across the yard, forming a giant rainbow. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

How could I ever forget guys who looked like toads and rats, and a giant made of a billion flies? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Smoke rose beyond the rooftops, as if giants were puffing cigars. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He would gladly throw himself at any monster, god, or giant to keep his friends from being hurt. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Out on the grassy pitch, someone kicked a ball too hard, and it flew up into a giant topiary animal and got stuck. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“I don’t hear words like those in Tartarus,” the giant grumbled. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The hard soles of his shoes rapped loudly on the metaled road like a giant clock, and he made himself think about time, about his great hoard, the luxury of an unspent fortune. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

If I had any chance of getting to the wedding, I should have passed the Forest on the second day, unless the baker had been mistaken about the distance from the Forest to the giants. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The nine giant-carrying helicopters each chose a separate giant and hovered directly over him. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the summit, lightning had splintered the giant pine tree. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The ground trembled as the giant bronze woman stepped down off her pedestal and twisted her foot, grinding the bossling into dust. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

From these meager beginnings he built the giant Westing Paper Products Corporation and founded the city of Westingtown to house his thousands of workers and their families. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

They said that he sank a giant American ship. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gripped the sides of the truck, fingers digging into metal, the giant in my chest growing larger until it seemed I would explode. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

On the ground, he couldn’t see that the streets, which were paved in various shades of stone, were laid out in a complex geometric pattern so that the city looked like a giant mosaic. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We wait until the giant wave has flooded out of the ten-to-eleven-o’clock section, wait for the water to recede, and then go to that beach to make camp. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was angry, he was hungry, and he did not trust this giant, out in the eastern wilderness. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She worried that Leo would turn the wrong combination on the sphere and accidentally eject them all from the deck, or blow up the ship, or turn the Argo II into a giant toaster. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

This time he aimed for the giant’s temple, and he hit Skrymir with all his strength. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The gods traveled into the land of the giants, battling many dangers, until they reached Angrboda’s keep. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

If you don’t obey and go to sleep, the hungry giant will stomp to your house and steal you. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The second giant breathed frost at Annabeth, who was barely able to stand, but Grover pulled her out of the way while Thalia went to work. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He clapped his hands, and two giants lumbered forward, dragging Charles Beckendorf between them. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She knew death was all around, breathing down her neck like some ancient god, like the giant painted throng haint now rushing toward her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Two figures crouched near the base of a giant oak tree. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Sprouting up from every one of the broken faults in the basketball court grew giant weeds and sticker bushes as high as our waists. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was too hard to fight the wind screaming like a giant wounded dove. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were benches as high as treetops, with giants sitting on them. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She got an angry glint in her eyes when he told her about the giants planning some sort of Rome-destroying extravaganza that would include their painful deaths as the opening event. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

‘I will alert the giants. They will destroy you.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Mrs. O’Leary chomp her fangs into a giant’s arm. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The giant’s golden skin paled as if it were turning to brass. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Each step echoed against the iron ceiling and made him sound like a giant walking. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are great mesas here, twice as high as the Tibetan plateau, an immense rift valley, possibly giant volcanoes and a mountain as high as Everest. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left me standing at the counter and went to pose with a giant fish in his hand. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crater is the inside of a giant volcano that blew its top off millions of years ago. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They looked like bookends, sitting right up against Pita, who was tied and gagged between them like a giant tamal rolled up in her own blanket. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I still remember looking up at him and thinking how strong and tall he looked, like a giant tree shielding me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Some were bandaged from their recent battle with the giants, but no one was armed. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Hazel slashed her sword across the back of the giant’s calf. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I look out at the expanse of the studio, my eyes lingering on the giant team banners as we rise past them. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Our neighbourhood looked odd at first, as if a giant alien presence had been beamed to another planet, leaving behind naked sky. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The host of the Horned King was like the body of an armed giant restlessly stirring. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

So why didn’t Gandalf give the ring to the giant eagles in the first place? Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I hoped she was talking to the giant, not me. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The giant dug his fingers into the wound on his biceps. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Eagles, for example, identify thermal columns rising from the ground, spread their giant wings and allow the hot air to lift them upwards. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take a giant bite of s’more, peeking up at him with my widest, most innocent eyes. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“My last birthday we saw a movie with a man hanging from the arms of a giant clock.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“The treat they have for you is a dozen baby giants only six months old.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had this weird image of giant doctors in scrubs and face masks, pulling their boat upstream. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It lit up the valley around them, the rushing river gurgled and splashed, the giant trees swayed in the frigid breeze, the grass looked touched with silver. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The flint hills rose higher and wilder with each passing mile, until by the fifth day they had turned into mountains, cold blue-grey giants with jagged promonto-ries and snow on their shoulders. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The cab spun in the road, doing five, then six full circles, as if some giant hand had reached down and spun it like a bottle. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When the weary passengers finally boarded the giant jet at Kennedy Airport and it lifted off the runway, her mother clutched Liyana’s wrist hard. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

My first opponent turned out to be a giant, so much bigger than the toy general I used to peep at. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dusty mounted trophy on the wall looked like a giant snake’s head, but with horns and a full set of sharks teeth. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

One of the giants had his hand around Beckendorf s neck. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Big blue fin making the whoosh as a giant fish circles my boat. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sam grabs me with his giant hands, and shakes me even harder. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

In between the two are old, pretty houses that seem to shine in the sunlight like charms on a giant bracelet, linked together by the flower gardens that spill over their neat picket fences. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

In November, he paid eighteen pence to a Uruguayan farmer for a piece of a colossal skull of yet another extinct mammal—the rhinolike Toxodon, with giant squirrel teeth—that had once roamed the plains. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I decided to intervene before this giant swatted us with his shovel. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Ever since his trip beneath Rome with Piper and Percy, fighting those twin giants in the hypogeum under the Colosseum, most of his nightmares were about basements, trapdoors, and large hamster wheels. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Below the dune a giant boulder blocked the roadway. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The giant was dangling a bloody corpse by one leg, the same way Arya used to dangle her doll when she was small, swinging it like a momingstar when menaced by vegetables. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On the day he had painted the chicken, he had hurried home, said goodbye, and, after painting a giant crane, jumped on its back, and flown away. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I had never been to Seattle before, and I thought it was one of the most intense-looking cities I’d ever seen, built right up against the tree-lined coast, in the shadow of a giant volcano. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A race of giants had lived then, fearless men, men of a staunchness unknown in this day. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gods stood aside, and only now the giant saw who was standing behind them. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Now a dozen were swimming around the giant’s legs. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Desdemona was standing between two air manifolds shaped like giant tubas. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There were giant crystal bookcases along one wall, and like a scene out of one of Seven’s dreams, black planters with every kind of plant and flower you could think of hanging from the ceilings. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The giant stepped into the bay, cracking the ice under his sandals, and thrust his hands in the water. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Methodically, enthusiastically, one after the next, Thor killed the giants of the waste, until the earth ran black and red with their blood. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The giants intended to attack the original Mount Olympus and destroy the gods forever. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

‘I has told you before that human beans is simply not believing in giants.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Mess is a giant characterless cafeteria, like you’d find in a public high school or a prison. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He was a small man with a round face and giant glasses. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The giant led us into a door along the side. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

A giant couldn’t eat half a leg of deer plus a huge mound of wild rice and eight of the fifty quail eggs and go back for dessert. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I saw Birmingham firefighters dressed in fire-battling suits and helmets, holding giant hoses. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

None of the giants paid them any attention. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I walked through thick sand and giant clumps of fly-infested seaweed to try and find a spot with enough light that I could see what I was doing. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

‘But no helicopter is big enough to get a giant like that inside it.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tinge of panic sent her attention reeling back to the fifth floor just in time to see one of Robbie’s painted giants swing down on her from the rafters. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The giant’s voice came from somewhere in front of them. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He looked ridiculous with the giant, fancy box creaking back and forth on the chain around his neck. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

—Jackie Woodson In the story of the Selfish Giant, a little boy hugs a giant who has never been hugged before. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Because he looks exactly like a giant baby. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I had never seen a giant adult tricycle before. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I looked like a giant hunkering down with elves. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now Surtr, the burning giant, who was there before the beginning of all things, looks out at the vast plain of death and raises his bright sword to the heavens. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

And between my room and my sister’s, the wall was one giant sheet of glass. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Middle school is supposed to be the worst. It’s like a giant hazing for adulthood. We all gotta go through it.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Brinker’s expansive, dazed tone suggested that here was one of life’s giant ironies, “There you are!” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember when we tried to be an eight-foot giant, and we put on my mom’s winter coat and you sat on my shoulders while we tried to walk around?” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Anybody who robbed innocent demigods with a giant turtle deserved a few nasty curses. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Before Porphyrion’s throne, dozens of giants stood in a loose ring, hollering and shaking their weapons as two of their number paraded around the circle, showing off their prizes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She worried that the giant Clytius had been put in their path to eliminate Leo as a threat. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But this real ocean is a giant snake that never stops hissing. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

When he registered that they were together in a giant’s bed with a skeleton cat, he looked more confused than ever. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

‘I don’t see any giant,’ the Queen said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just below it is a giant walrus holding a magic wand. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Once they were clear of the school, she stopped, ducking behind a giant brick mailbox to dig out her yellow notebook and a pencil. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The NACAites ran their giant turbines into the wee hours if necessary, engineers pressing the machines for answers to their research questions like night owls on the hunt for mice. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Before the photo albums are packed away, I take my fa- vorite picture of Jaimito, sitting in his wooden airplane, a giant smile on his face. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Antinous’s words rang in his ears - about the giants in Athens, the impossible trip facing the Argo II, the mysterious hunter Gaia had sent to intercept the Athena Parthenos. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I take two sugars and a giant glug of cream. How do you drink it?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Honestly, though, life in here is one giant emergency. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He imagined the giant taking that coin she carried and adding it to his collection. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Here was one more giant problem I had to talk to God about. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Through the smoky shroud, Hazel saw the giant open his mouth. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The giant metal “drift tubes” suspended inside the cylinder, which the deuteron beam would traverse, each weighed several tons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I scraped a flat spot out on the sand next to a giant black boulder and gathered a pile of twigs and sticks and branches, the smallest I could find. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My mother sat in the front row of a skybox, looking a little stunned by how giant the platform for our lives had become. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“And now a giant has captured him,” Percy said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I sprint for the stairs, but the giant snake doesn’t give chase. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, tourists from all over the globe came flocking to gaze down in wonder at the nine horrendous man-eating giants in the great pit. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Out of the way, out of the way!” sang Mrs. Weasley, coming through the gate with what appeared to be a giant, beach-ball-sized Snitch floating in front of her. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The other side of the amphitheater was set against what looked like a giant, wrinkled brown wall. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

From behind him, the albino was aware of a giant shadow moving. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a chain that’s powered by oil and gasoline and controlled by giant corporations. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was a large frame house, with miles of slippery wood floor, a kitchen clad in stainless steel so shiny it burned, a living room with a fireplace and giant TV. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

One building had a row of giant oil lamps over the entrance to promote a sale on until October 31. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They must feel as if a giant wind suddenly picked them up in Pakistan, blew them across the globe, and set them down here in this foreign place. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Though my aunts and uncles tried to make it festive with loud music and a giant feast of tamales and roasted goat, Olga’s absence floated silently around us. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But probably it was only that carpets and couches and curtains just didn’t make the right atmosphere for a game about hidden splendors and giant mysteries, in a land of mud and sand. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking down at him on the floor, how he overflows the rug, I think about that story where a giant falls asleep and is tied up by little people. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The peach fan beat the air like a giant moth. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

So I told him the mission: When they were digging the king’s new wading pool, they found some old, buried goblin treasure—a giant gemstone carved with some kind of a story on it. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

And she couldn’t shake the dreadful feeling that if she hadn’t summoned that schist, she’d be a captive of the giant right now. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The only problem: a big smoky giant stood in her way. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And then there was the matter of the giant roaches. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Inches from my toes, the umbrella landed in the sand like a giant dart. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They got larger and wider until the giant crumbled in a mountain of blue shards. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Somehow, Dorian didn’t think that was the case—not when she had the three giant scars on her back to forever remind her of his father’s brutality. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Or if we were hungry, we pooled our money and headed to the kan-yenya stand, which was really just a giant vat of boiling grease over a fire, next to the boozing center. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

At the end of our street in Eden Park, right in a bend at the top of the road, stood a giant mulberry tree growing out of someone’s front yard. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He fed the fire by hand, and it was like an offering to a dead giant. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d barely made it out of the Tokyo Dome when the first enormous broadcasts appear on the sides of the buildings surrounding the arena, the headlines in giant, screaming letters. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even if they managed to escape, how could they defeat the giants if the gods were all incapacitated? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I had a dream that was us and somebody drove up with one of those giant crane magnets from the car wrecking yards.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The sun was hidden behind a giant puffy white cloud. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

As the giant reached the Pomerian Line, Percy jumped aside like a bullfighter. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

At times of famine, a single blepharisma will begin eating its neighbors; it then enlarges to an immense size and turns into a cannibalistic giant, straight out of any Norse fable. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If wishes were inches, all of us Comanches would have had him a giant in no time. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The book tried to bite, but Hagrid ran a giant forefinger down its spine, and the book shivered, and then fell open and lay quiet in his hand. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Every day she came in with something different—a chain of SpongeBob Burger King toys strung around her neck; one asymmetrical, giant, red-plastic hoop earring; black clown circles on her cheeks. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Frank bashed the giant’s face back and forth until his metallic features began to dent. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Reyna ran towards the wreckage, but the giant bellowed and shoved away the car. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The giant was woozy, and the boat rocked as he stumbled to his post. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giant grabbed her thin wrist and began dragging Old Theresa out of town. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Piper couldn’t see what was happening inside the ruins - just the heads of twenty or thirty giants standing in a circle, mumbling and swaying, maybe doing the evil monster version of‘Kumbayah’. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Mrs. O’Leary bounded out of nowhere, picked up a Laistrygonian giant in her mouth, and flung him into the air like a Frisbee. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She scooped straight from the buy-one-get-one-free giant tubs in the freezer, globs of vanilla and chocolate, while staring at the television. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“The ghosts are dancing. Come on. We’d better go meet the giants.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Three giant figures stood side by side at the center of the clearing. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The giant woman recoiled when she learned I was Polish, so I willed my legs to move faster, telling myself that once I told the knight my story, he would understand. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The tall one looked menacing because of his giant size and his scar. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her shirt says I’m watching you, and it’s got a picture of an owl with giant eyes—and it fits her perfectly, like all of her clothes do. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The best mums are homemade with giant artificial chrysanthemums on cardboard backing with huge streams of ribbon hanging from them. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She forced herself to meet the giant’s gaze. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There were two giant fans at the front of the church, one by the tabernacle and one next to the statue of Saint Joseph. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

When she opened the door, she found Allegra, their friend from school, standing in the middle of the room wearing a frightful dress that made her look like a giant boysenberry. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The turtle’s fins like giant moving stones, coursing with water. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They were standing in an imposing marble foyer, and Sierra felt tiny, a crumb in a giant, pristine oven. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Holograms from the giant Lego Sphinx and Pyramid exhibit.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

But the bearded, glowering face reminded Jason very much of the giant Hippie Zeus in Cabin One at Camp Half-Blood. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“They look like they might be breaching the north battlements, they’ve brought giants of their own!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I am one of the giants you are so proud of. You wished me to be more warlike? Perhaps I will start by destroying you!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He motioned me forward, and I reluctantly inched closer and looked over the side of the giant crow. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Her: Next time you see him look at him and tell me he does not look like a giant baby. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The smell of eggs and bacon wafts off the plate, a giant chocolate milk shake sitting on the tray next to it. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

As Cole weakened, he stared up at the giant spruce tree towering above him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Reyna soared above the giant, diving in with her javelin whenever he turned his attention to the ground troops. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She had to go against reason, follow emotion instead, keep the giant off balance. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I was no longer walking around with a giant question mark over my head. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But the giants were back—all the giants. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Is it possible to kill a giant in Tartarus? I mean, since we don’t have a god to help us?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She lives in one of those old neighborhoods in Broadmoor in a giant mansion. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My chest feels like it’s being crushed by a giant fist. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The back seat is cramped with Adam in his booster seat, me in the middle, and Libby’s giant legs sprawling into my space. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It left the two of us, the giant and me, face-to-face. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s just two giants. If you guys want, I can take them.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The walls were lined with metal shelves six stories high, decorated with war banners, painted shields, and the stuffed heads of dragons, hydras, giant lions, and wild boars. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The giants stood around him awkwardly, watching him as he worked. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Finally, when he had gotten quite out of breath and Paula had probably grown quite seasick in her box, the girl stopped and knocked on a door fit for a giant. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is possible she escaped to one of the giant communities still existing in foreign mountain ranges. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The giants came right at Daedalus, but Mrs. O’Leary leaped to his defense. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A six-armed Earthborn and a Laistrygonian giant pummeled each other with rocks, though Percy wasn’t sure if they were fighting or just messing around. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The giant falls in love with the boy but then one day, the boy disappears. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The giant peach, with the sunlight glinting on its side, was like a massive golden ball sailing upon a silver sea. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her makeup is smeared under her eyes, and her giant orange-blond curls are starting to fall flat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The giant hands grabbed the gorgons, who dropped Frank in surprise. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Except for the beautiful fairy and a number of giants, everyone started back to the house, including Father. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looks up from the giant textbook he’s reading. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie leads us between some giant hedges and the apartment walls. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I told her that the Emperor Nero, from Rome, had a giant sea built where he could keep sea monsters and have naval battles staged for him. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Into my mind came a wonderful and terrible picture of great forested mountains, shaken by a giant hand that scooped them up, finally, and flung them into the boiling sea. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind us, I heard the sound of giant wings as Kampe took to the air. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Just a giant pile of bricks and a big dumpster filled with junk near the oak tree that Ivy fell out of when she was six and broke her right arm. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Wiglaf, on Beowulf's instructions, carried a newly cut stake, about six feet long, and a glove that would have fitted a giant. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm like a giant mess of problems, all linked together and tracing back to my childhood. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I pull the turkey tea cozy off the giant jug of pretzels where it usually sits, stick it on my head like a hat, and dance around the kitchen. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The gorgons had disabled the giant eagles and now flew unchallenged over the giant’s remaining centaurs and the Earthborn, trying to rally them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was galloping around his enemy, using sword and shield, while the giant swung a javelin the size of a telephone pole and the crowd cheered. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Knox, a dot at the far end of the room, stood at a podium in front of a giant American flag. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When it’s fully decorated, the basement looks like a giant birthday cake for some pretty girl’s quinceañera. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The giants stood in front of Percy, but they paid him no attention. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

If it’s not true, she made a giant mistake. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Tree branches that should have been heavy with green needles were stripped clean, as if a giant had come and swept them bare with his fingers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

No one in this age of telephones and motorcars could believe that giants seven or eight feet high existed in crowded Surrey. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The giant kissed his right forefinger and touched it to Lyra’s head before handing her back, very delicately, to Malcolm. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The giant king flew backwards out of the temple and Jason ran after him, his father at his heels. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He slew a greybeard and a beardless boy, a giant, a gaunt man with filed teeth, a girl with thick red hair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One artist offered a giant bright installation titled “Underground Springs” made from tin cans roped together, painted flashing purple and silver, spilling forth from a map of Israel on the wall. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I see a photograph on the mantle of Bruce holding a rifle in front of a giant dead animal. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There might be a lot more of them than there were of him, but Harry could tell, by the looks on their faces, that they knew no more magic than the giant squid did. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The bronze giant reached behind her back, pulled out a giant spear with a broad-leaved blade the size of a windshield, and leveled it at us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Bethlehem Steel brought giant ingots and great slabs of military armor, including a curved plate seventeen inches thick meant for the gun turret of the dreadnought Indiana. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There were a few broken toys in the yard, and a giant Rottweiler was asleep on the porch. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

When the BFG came near to the sleeping giants, he slowed his pace. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the library I walked past a row of giant Christmas trees that were planted on the side of the building. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The space is wide, warm, and well lit, with a giant hearth and stove squatting in one corner and a wooden worktable sprawled in the center. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A bellowing sound, like a giant beast was dying a terrible death. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

I picture a giant mother ship hovering in the skies above us. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You... you will die slowly,” the giant promised. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They looked like big round footprints, as if a giant horse had galloped along there. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes the giants drew away from her. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

A windmill swung its giant arms in slow obedience to the wind and a farmer passed them carrying a sack of grain to be ground. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Specifically, by the giant oil painting hanging above the table, which I can only assume is an early portrait of BoJack Horseman painted by Leonardo da Vinci himself. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He dashed to the right, ducking under the shadowy giant’s grasping hands, and burst through the nearest doorway. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Like two giants they crashed against each other. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The yellow sun rose, a giant balloon filled with prayers and hopes and promise. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sabre-tooth cats, after flourishing for more than 30 million years, disappeared, and so did the giant ground sloths, the oversized lions, native American horses, native American camels, the giant rodents and the mammoths. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason had a terrifying image of himself in a hammock, swinging between the claws of Frank the giant eagle, but he decided it would be better than dying. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Well,” the man said, “a giant white stone washed up from the sea and the Tiger King ordered me to make a sculpture of himself on a horse from it.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

With a final roar, the giant splintered into a million tiny fragments of darkness. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A giant bomb had fallen, and even that could not hurt this special place. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Not on the normal tourist route, it was clean and cozy, with dark-painted walls, a giant silver-sequined elephant and other decorations from Thailand, and dim lighting, which his eyes preferred. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“One last gift for the child of Athena,” rumbled the giant. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At lunch, just before Imani plunks down next to us like she always does, Heather and I jump up and give her another giant hug. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The picture she was attacking was a painting of me standing over the giant Antaeus. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But before he had finished speaking, the stone was rolled aside and a fifty-foot giant, more than twice as tall and wide as the BFG, came striding into the cave. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had a giant snack pack of barbecue potato chips and those lemonade drinks in little boxes and a giant bag of red apples. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Once I’d cleared a few more checkpoints, I was ushered into the testing area, a giant room filled with hundreds of small, soundproofed cubicles. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She took him by the hand, laughing and teasing, calling him her giant of Lannister. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I’d told her how Meg helped her father escape, and I’d described the first battle with IT, which is this giant, evil brain that wants to control everyone. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Feeling too hot to move any farther, she lay down to rest between the roots of one of the giant trees, with her head on her rucksack, and fell into a doze. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The door opened and a giant with one cycloptic eyebrow stepped out. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Poseidon’s trident morphed into a fire hose, and the god sprayed the giants out of the Parthenon with a high-powered blast in the shape of wild horses. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

‘First I had a horrid nightmare, then the maid dropped my breakfast and now I’ve got a giant on the piano.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miguelito and I imagined the puddles were lakes and we pretended to be giants stepping over them. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the other buildings were well under way, including, incredibly, the giant Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, where hundreds of workers swarmed its scaffolds and roof. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The inside surface of a giant eyelid—and when I peel back the lid, there’s a darkness that truly goes on forever—but it’s not darkness at all. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

We’re lucky that English, with its stretchy grammar and its giant grab bag of a vocabulary, gives us so much room for verbal play, if not anarchy. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Demeter waved her hand and an entire column of giants turned into a wheat field. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Pasiphaë looked back at the giant and sniffed with disdain. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The giant’s hair was braided with gold and silver coins. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The hills on the other side rose from the lake like giants emerging from the depths. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A person who would dare go up against a giant, disease-ridden immortal? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The giant crow cawed once and flapped its enormous wings. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The modern llama arose similarly, by descending from a giant ancestral beast. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When she said that, it felt as though a giant hand were squeezing her chest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Hollister led them to a round table decorated for Halloween with a giant paper spider, a witch’s cauldron, and cotton-strewn webs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

‘But what about these Tree-men, these giants, as you might call them? They do say that one bigger than a tree was seen up away beyond the North Moors not long back.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was a light breeze, which lifted a faint scent out of the flowers and rustled the stiff leaves, and Mary imagined a huge, dim benevolence holding her up, like a pair of giant hands. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

‘But I does do my best. And I is not nearly as mixed up as the other giants. I know one who gallops all the way to Wellington for his supper.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A top seller can win a giant stuffed ram, our school mascot. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There were frost giants and mountain giants at Balder’s funeral; there were even dwarfs, the cunning craftsmen from beneath the ground, for all things that there were mourned the death of Balder. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Everything and all of them were being rattled around like peas inside an enormous rattle that was being rattled by a mad giant who refused to stop. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

A fairly typical comet would look like a giant tumbling snowball about 1 kilometer across. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved to sit on the giant metal turtles at the Central Park Zoo. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A giant’s laughter could put to shame a dragon’s roar. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

‘If Kekrops comes back in two minutes with an army of giants, then no.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He felt as though he were standing on the edge of a giant hole—a hole filled with the black despair of nothingness. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We left the stone giant behind and set off through the woods toward the foot of the bluff, our clothes drip-drying quickly in the heat. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Like that immortal hero, she reposed awhile after the first attempt, which resulted in a tumble and the least lovely of the giant’s treasures, if I remember rightly. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of them, giants and the dead and the burning sons of Muspell, will travel to the battle plain called Vigrid. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

At any time she liked, the Matron could send you down in your pyjamas and dressing-gown to report to this merciless giant, and whenever this happened you got caned on the spot. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He's a big, grotesquely ugly giant with the strength of a thousand elephants and a gigantic appetite, for human flesh especially. The usual." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

My eyes turn upward, expecting to see giant cracks race across the ceiling, massive chunks of stone raining down on us, but the bunker itself gives only a slight shudder. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

At last, Narcissa hurried up a street named Spinner’s End, over which the towering mill chimney seemed to hover like a giant admonitory finger. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Tells me there’s a giant wearing a mask out in the yard, asking for a place to sleep. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes giant bubbles of unburned gases rose within the column and then exploded high in the sky. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Percy knew that giants couldn’t die unless demigods and gods fought them together. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I saw the giant bend and clutch the posts at the top of the stairs with both hands, bracing himself, his body gleaming bare in his white shorts. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several fetterlings had managed to coil around Eddie’s page giant like a python, but huge paper fists were hammering them left and right. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I reach into the bag to find a giant glazed donut. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Frank, Hazel, Tyson,” Percy said, “help the Fourth Cohort. I’ve got a giant to kill.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Boats chug around the lake, careful to avoid the giant water turbines churning along the edge, and the shore's flood sirens are quiet and unlit. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

‘You is a human bean and human beans is like strawbunkles and cream to those giants.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been strung up, chained by its wrists and ankles so it made a kind of giant X over the tunnel. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She looked at the giant spruce that dominated the stage. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The light hit the giant squid, and the monster dissolved like food coloring in water. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He watched Thiazi, in giant form, lumber out of his keep and walk across the shingle to a rowing boat bigger than the largest whale. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

And yet there endured the legend that somewhere out over the down there lived a great and solitary rabbit, a giant who drove the elil like mice and sometimes went to silflay in the sky. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giant faded into a corner, and I threw a little more story into the air. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“How awful is my life that I’m hoping for a giant fiery toad to come and eat the giant fiery fly?” she muttered. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Bianca got right next to the giant’s foot, trying to balance herself on the metal scraps that swayed and shifted with his weight. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She did not trust monks and she did not trust giants, and the last time she’d seen a giant monk, her friend Theresa had been taken away to be burned at the stake. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

And the head of Asmodeus Poisonteeth, the giant adder, lay severed upon the ground, its eyes dulled in death, never again to hypnotize another living creature! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

All the creatures Kyle had read about and studied in the dinosaur books downstairs were now swarming across the giant video screen in front of him. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

No offence to Frank, but after the fiasco at Fort Sumter Leo had become a conscientious objector to riding giant eagles. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I’m talking giant like bigger than the fountain. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It roves over a pair of metal cabinets that have been warped and mauled as if a giant hand has reached down and torn each in half. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Felix clicked download, and a few seconds later, a giant dollar sign spun on the screen with the words Penny Doubled Challenge pulsing beneath. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘I has told you before,’ he said, ‘giants is never eating giants, so I is going down and I shall untie them myself before you can say rack jobinson.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The demigods rolled to either side, and Jason summoned the wind, using the giant’s own momentum to shove him into the water. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

‘You really are rather a wonderful giant,’ she said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t try to climb them, because who’s to say they won’t break apart beneath my feet and drop me down into some abyss where I’ll have to slay giant underground rodents with my bat. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

She threw her sword—not at the giant, but at the Doors of Death. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was like some giant had blown his hot, stinky breath on her. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t finish, just stares off at the giants. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“But if any giants come this way—” “Feel free to blast them,” Jason said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

‘I is hating those other giants more than ever now,’ he said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a black-and-white picture of Vern leaning over a giant octopus sprawled out on a lab table. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Next to a giant red cross was a small wooden table and on it were a folded Confederate flag, a Bible, a glass bottle, and an unsheathed sword. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She led us to an elevator in the back of the store behind the giant Lego dragon. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Arachne had the body of a giant black widow, with a hairy red hourglass mark on the underside of her abdomen and a pair of oozing spinnerets. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, you two look happy!” said Uncle Bill, setting down a tray laden with sodas, hot dogs, a container of ketchup, and a giant cup of fries. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The great trees that lined the banks looked like giant snowmen huddling together for warmth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin wake spread like a giant V behind the departing creature until it became a silhouetted speck, finally disappearing. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She sat down at the breakfast table and opened the newspaper and hid her face behind the huge pages as if she were reading the wings of a giant butterfly. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t even listening to what Eddie was saying because that giant wouldn’t stop looking at me. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I struck a match and tossed it in, started a giant flame on the paper that quickly jumped to the wood. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He had a Bible in his hand, a giant cross formed from nails hanging around his neck. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

A round from a Japanese .77 hit the waves so close to us that our boat rocked like a toy swatted by a giant. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below them, the army began to march south again, but the giant Polybotes stood to one side, frowning and sniffing the air. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“As for the giant, he is close. These shades are not mine. They are his.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The storm had tom the forest to pieces—up in back of the ridge it looked like a giant had become angry and used some kind of a massive meatgrinder on the trees. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now imagine that a giant hand comes down and squashes the book flat. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He walked up to the giant, whose oily wounds were steaming. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I kind of expected to see a giant Triceratops skeleton carved halfway out of the ground,” I comment. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

There were steps stretching out behind them, but steps made for giants, and the ochre rock wall to his right. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The giants head went under in a seething whirlpool, and he was gone. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

After a long wait, a man brought back a giant cart of mixed-up shoes and tossed them toward us. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

They looked like giant chocolate bars stacked on top of each other. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I sat next to my giant saguaro awhile looking down at poor old Billy and Fred, endlessly hauling kids around the dirt trail. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My parents would be there to help—my mom bought a giant book about college scholarships for me—but the work of earning that scholarship would fall to me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In books, there were giant metal boxes with wings that soared through the sky, carrying people. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

‘We don’t fight each other. We fight the giants. You should help us.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

To the west, you could see all the way to the ocean, where an old-looking ship rigged with giant, complicated sails glided down the coast. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

"Are you—are you a giant?" asked Shasta. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Inside the main office sat a priest in a long burgundy robe wearing a giant pointed hat, or crown. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Great. I should have installed a smoke screen that makes the ship smell like a giant chicken nugget. Remind me to invent that, next time.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I heard a distinct smacking sound, and when she lifted her head again a giant bite had disappeared from the goose leg. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Like Mom, she was short, but everyone seemed like a giant to me most of the time, especially when I had my artificial legs off. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Nyame’s land had turned into a giant sauna, and sweat beaded on my forehead. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The dragons are no more, the giants are dead, the children of the forest forgotten with all their lore. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Even with her broken ankle, she could manage to avoid a giant silk finger trap. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“But the whole quest started with us finding Hera and waking that giant king Porphyrion. I have a feeling the war will end with us too. For better or worse.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The players look like they are lunging right out of the screen as giant, three-dimensional figures, and each time they make a good move, the crowd screams at the top of their lungs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Saloon and Steakhouse is the first wooden building you see when you enter Stagecoach Pass after parking in the giant dirt lot, which is only a quarter full on the busiest days. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She measured the distance to the giant weapons above them. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Jack pauses at the flat edge of a giant stone; he extends his gloved hand to me. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We walked down the path under the giant umbrella and out through the dark wet gardens to the road and across the road to the trellised pathway along the lake. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The house began to look like a giant birthday cake covered with frosting. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel zipped from giant to giant, stinging them with the blade of her spatha. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Well? Do I look dumb wearing these giant hoops?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Miss Peregrine propped herself against the giant cooking range. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He hated this feeling, the feeling that all the words that he wanted to say would just tangle themselves into a giant ball, wound so tight that nothing could manage to escape. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The giant threw his weighted net and Percy collapsed to the floor, hopelessly entangled as the poison thickened around him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He made a smashing gesture with his fists, and the giant hands plunged the gorgons into the Tiber. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“But giants can only be killed by heroes and gods working together,” she insisted. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The waitress suddenly brings us our giant seafood platter. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Another team worked the pressing machines like cooks at a giant griddle. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But then Jeanne said that the giant was coming to take away Old Theresa. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The man before him clearly was not a hunter giant. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Different colored sands painted a boy with glasses holding a feather in one hand and a book in the other in the center of a giant circular mural. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The officer sticks wooden stakes into the sand and ties neon tape around each to create a giant square of bright tape around the seal. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Mamá Jacinta gives me a giant plate of beans, rice, and shredded beef tostadas covered with sour cream, lettuce, and chopped tomatoes. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He loved all of it: smoke rings and lonely squids and giant donuts and Flora Belle Buckman’s round head and all the wonderful thoughts inside of it. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Along one entire wall is a giant flat screen, and my dad is planted in front of this now, enormous feet on the coffee table, watching some sort of game and shouting at the television. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"I've seen the bones of giants, and heard many a queer tale, but no more. I want to see them with my own eyes." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Percy yelled as he ran by, followed by a giant screaming bloody murder. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The “buses” would be a giant car pool consisting of ordinary people’s automobiles. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I remembered searching through the wreckage of the giant bronze warrior she’d sacrificed her life to defeat, and not finding any sign of her. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Sun will become a red giant star, its visible surface so far from its interior that the gravity at its surface grows feeble, its atmosphere expanding into space in a kind of stellar gale. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Plumber told me this dang tree is plugging up some of the pipes. Least bit of rain and the yard turns into a giant mud puddle.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But from this vantage point she saw the wall had been crafted in the shape of a leviathan, a giant ice dragon circling the island and swallowing its own tail. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

You have forfeited your right to a quick death, the giant snarled. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It is a giant umbrella concept meaning no more nor less than the fitting of a speech to the temper and expectations of its audience. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He was not profusely thankful and there was that silence about him, that bearded, gruff, and giant silence, that unwillingness to engage the protocols of island life. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the center of the arena, a fight was going on between a giant and a centaur. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I found one in a recess partially blocked by a giant fern in a stone pot. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The downtown buildings radiated heat like giant toasters in the midday July sun, making my dress stick to my legs. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The giants surged forward in a last desperate attempt. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Klan was so entrenched and broad- based that Kennedy felt as if he were tossing pebbles at a giant. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

As if I’m going to roll into prom with a giant old-timey camera and a tripod. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

And now I had to march down to Malloy's house with my giant hand and tell him what happened. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

But I see a boy with one leg very clearly longer than the other, limping past me, with a giant hunchback taking up the rear, and I wonder: What show is this boy right for? Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And there is a giant whoosh of light. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

After dinner one evening, as I’m collecting the dirty plates, the Doctorita rubs her giant belly. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Halfway between Hazel and the giant, the air shimmered. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Odin stepped over the bodies of the giants, retrieved the whetstone of the gods, and placed it back in his pouch. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The giants were raucous and loud, and now were ignoring him. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Being a secret girl was a giant problem. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

As fast as they rushed up, the giant kicked them back. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the summit of the hill, the mighty blocks of stone lay as if crushed by a giant fist. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

We walked back toward the cornfields, and then cut through them until the back of the giant screen came into view. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

It shakes the inside of me like the giant clanging of a bell. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It had been the backdrop for a thousand imagined battles—between demons and wizards, fairies and goons, trolls and giants. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Smacking up, down, like a giant pounding with his fists. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Meggie was trying to imagine it all: the giants, the trolls, and the fairies. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Nothing said “Mom’s watching” like seven giant panes of glass. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“The Taliban have destroyed what heritage Afghans had. You saw what they did to the giant Buddhas in Bamiyan.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The giant Ephialtes had centuries’ worth of coins in his braids—hundreds of trophies. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He watches them in the giant gilt-framed mirrors on the walls, their dark heads leaning close. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The giants had already spotted the BFG and all heads were turned, watching him as he jogged forward. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Almost half my kinsmen. River spirits drowned the giants in the end, but...” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Annabeth and two of her siblings were holding back a Hyperborean giant. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And he set off alone past the giant snake skin. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The whole thing had come to resemble a giant science fair, with teams of girls proudly showing off their various projects. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I reached up and tugged the yellow cord, and the bus hadn’t even stopped before we were running to the front, lurching and swaying with that giant hunk of metal. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The giant backed away, but my shadow children kept him hemmed in so he couldn’t escape. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The giant was flailing his arms, struggling to get back into the water. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the closing decades of the nineteenth century the sleeping giant of Russia had awoken. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Golly pulls a giant polo over his head and jams his arms into the sleeves. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Maybe. But I shouldn’t have said all that stuff and acted like a giant brat. That was wrong. So, I’m sorry, again.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A giant chart of the four basic food groups was tacked up between the back windows. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I look at the Lightning power-up hovering in the middle of the giant hole in the structure. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The tunnels were big enough to accommodate large monsters, even giants. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A few blank windows stared down on them in silence from the husks of the giant buildings. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The high tree did prove to be an elm, an ancient giant covered in gnarled bumps and handy branches. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Frank unleashed a hail of arrows, driving back the giants nearest to Percy. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

On the bright side, assuming there was a bottom, Annabeth and Percy would probably be flattened on impact, so giant spiders were the least of their worries. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As she went down toward the Wood, the full moon hung like a giant, pale eye above her, unwavering in its gaze. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giant adder was slithering closer with each passing second. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

At lunch, I squeezed in next to Maya and Rand, who were hunched over yet another one of Maya’s giant dot games, which were getting more and more elaborate. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I pressed a button on Leopardon’s control panel, and my giant robot drew its gleaming sword. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She was enormous, fat, and horribly ugly, wearing a chain-mail dress like a muumuu—but next to the giant she looked like a child. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The building consisted mainly of one narrow and profoundly vertical room—a giant stairwell, essentially—dominated by a skeletal staircase that corkscrewed from the floor to a stone landing, more than a hundred feet up. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

As I watched, the entire sea around her was sucked into the void—sharks, schools of fish, a giant squid. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

A giant three-fingered hand made of rotted wood and rusty metal appeared at the edge of the door. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

‘I will be watching your progress. Polybotes was not boasting when he warned that your blood would awaken the Earth Mother. The giants are very confident of this.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“You will need to run faster if you have a hope of beating Hugi,” said the giant. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

That giant was back there somewhere, following, pushing them deeper into Tartarus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Just wood and that pink insulation stuff and tiles and clothes and food, all the colors of their world thrown together like a giant had had a temper tantrum. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I’ve seen pictures and videos, but what’s it like to actually be in the water? Is it like taking a bath in a giant tub?” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

So we just began walking, figuring they must be out on the trail, which didn’t have the best reception from all the giant pine trees and stuff. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

This was a giant bowl, meant to last for a week for the whole family. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The giant circular targets were composed of five colored rings—yellow marking the center, with only a tiny black dot to mark the bull’s-eye. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He thought about the route the elfin scholar would take, spit out of a giant crossbow from the Royal Palace of Dwelholm. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The trees were thinner now, less like the trees of giants. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mama told us children a story about a big giant that lived in the mountains and ate little children that were lost. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What have the demigods given you? They have erased your old self, everything you were. Titans and giants...we are meant to be the foes of the gods and their children. Are we not?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It took four giants to carry Thor’s hammer. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The power of the oligarchy, fueled by trusts and giant holding companies, was too great, and appeals to racial solidarity were ultimately irresistible to white Southerners. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maya asked once they were in the car, a giant Frappuccino clutched in her hand. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The oaken door had been thrown open, a giant key turned in its rusting lock. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I don’t blame you. You had a giant king on your side, plus an army of wolves and Earthborn, and you still couldn’t beat us.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The first thing I saw were a dozen Laistrygonian giants erupting from the ground, yelling so loudly my ears felt like bursting. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Frank leaped off just before the giant ' slammed into a boulder. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The giant animals moved about inside the mountains dimly, like shadows, huge, terrible shadows. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes widen and I look over at my giant tub of hand sanitizer. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She directed our little sister to a chinaberry tree with giant overhanging branches a few yards away. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The whole complex, recently painted with a mix of red ochre and buttermilk, stood against the sky like a row of giant beets popped clear of the earth. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Byron didn’t even get nervous when Momma packed a whole bunch of food in die giant green cooler we borrowed from the Johnsons. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like that A flip of some giant coin and he was the loser. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab the loose Halloween picture of Esme dressed in waders, holding a fishing pole, and Henry dressed as a giant fish. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Panic gripped her throat like a giant's hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If Percy attacked the giant, the hydra would ravage the city. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the rope he’d bought in Seward, quickly made a noose, and fastened it around the giant’s scaly dragon foot. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The demons, monsters, and giants were furious at his presumption and banded together to drive him out. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

And giant banners with snake symbols upon them descend over the stage. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Below it the trees were moving in impossible directions, shaking back and forth, then swaying like fainting giants, then popping out of sight. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Bach and Handel, the two musical giants of the eighteenth century, were born just eighty miles and four weeks apart and yet they never met. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

On Monday morning Becky sent me to the washerwoman with a giant basket of dirty tablecloths and serviettes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But whatever it was, the twin giants became nervous. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When he’d woken up that morning as a giant snake, perhaps it had been a sign from the gods. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He yanked off his flexible rubber arm and waved it overhead like a giant bug antenna. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

This southron king seemed to be one of those men to whom women are another race, as strange and unfathomable as giants and grumkins and the children of the forest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She screamed, and a giant reddish blur slammed into the wasp-man, yellow teeth tearing off its dark, chitinous face. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She had trodden on the giant slug, which burst. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And Zeus kept pounding the giant with lightning, until finally, slowly, the water rose, wrapping Typhon like a cocoon, and he began to sink under the weight of the chains. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

We pretend we re a pair of daredevil explorers who’ve discovered a giant prehistoric monster in some distant jungle and we've brought it back for the world to see. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It had metal bars covering it, of a size that would have kept any unwanted giants at a respectable distance. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Considering she was meeting a giant for the first time in her life, the Queen remained astonishingly self-composed. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hated being at the mercy of a Titan—especially one who was slowly recovering his memory and bringing them to see a “good” giant. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I learned on Bourbon Street from giants in the earth,” I said. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, we head over to my father’s house, where we sit inside, scattered around the living room, hockey playing on yet another giant flat screen that has been implanted into the wall. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He introduces Cinna, who became an overnight star with his costumes for me in the Games, and after a minute of good-natured chitchat, we’re directed to turn our attention to a giant screen. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

One-eyed ogres and giant spiders stole into Meggie’s sleep, hounds of hell, witches who ate children, all the bugbears she had ever met in stories. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the forest, a giant shaggy black dog was bounding around, sniffing the trees. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

At home we dared not open the back window adjoining an alleyway, for fear of being overcome by the stench, or worse, being invaded by the giant flies and rats. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

So this terrifying ascension was most difficult for him, perched as he was on the neck of the giant. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I would erase it all: the smell, the rats, the giant mountain of rotting food. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As we head to the car, I take a giant bite of my ice cream—I love the fire-hot/cold on my teeth. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The school could have been overtaken by giant flying ants. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Guarding the ancient steps are giant granite lions, tigers, eight-headed snakes, and elephants. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy was ready to slice this giant in half and get out of there, but Otis was standing over Nico. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Now the gulls were pulling at his legs and shoulders with giant beaks, trying to lift him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

A patch of grass caught fire, lit up, and Ugwu saw a ferret by the cluster of trees ahead, hunched like a giant tortoise. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s like a giant sushi roll, but with different fillings. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

They’d give her a giant black ceremonial robe when she got to the town square, but it was thin and the night was cold. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You think the giants would use our blood...the blood of two of us—” “I don’t know,” Percy said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She knew where lady fern grew and phantom orchids and warted giant puffballs. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He could have made trees walk the streets like invading giants. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

They seemed to bear some unintelligible warning from the world of night, crying and circling overhead as we splashed through the shallows toward the stone giant. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Anyway, within a couple of minutes the giant was suspended above the ground, hopelessly snarled in chains and hooks. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Frank didn’t have to knock out Alcyoneus too many times, because the giant’s head kept bouncing and hitting the ice. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It's both black and clear, a giant unblinking eye. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the past, whenever she’d felt horrible, she’d just have a giant gossip fest with Poppy, but now when she needed her most, Poppy was too busy with her coven to care. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He looks exactly like if Drake and Beyonce had a giant baby. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Only in Faerieland is a giant toad the less conspicuous choice. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A giant copper kettle—often about four feet across and three feet deep—waited for the pale river. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was covered with a giant net which went down to its belly, from which a wooden frame was suspended. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A giant green building slides past in the yellow light of the late hour. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mama caught a giant magenta clump that tumbled from the wagon. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Leaning back against a huge granite boulder that seemed as if it had been placed there by a decorating giant, she held a thick book in her lap. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Makes me homesick for Houston! What do you say, Hazel? All we need now are some giant mosquitoes, and it’ll feel just like the Gulf Coast!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She was going to go down as kibble for some giant snake alcoholic? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She barely came to Polly’s shoulder, but she carried herself with the dignity of a giant. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she wanted to have her shadow eaten by a giant mythical crab-monster, that was her business, though in fairness his readings suggested those usually lived in larger bodies of water. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Oh—” Stheno stepped back quickly to avoid getting flattened by the giant’s foot. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

On her dressing table, where less interesting people would’ve put a jewelry box or a picture frame, August had a fish aquarium turned upside down with a giant piece of honeycomb inside it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her lime green viper hair and Bargain Mart vest clashed horribly with the giant’s color scheme. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It’s the not-remembering that makes it one giant hole in the middle of a rug. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Usually it was painful and obvious when a hollow was nearby, but in a giant space like this—among hundreds of people—my warning might only be a whisper, the faintest twinge, easy to miss. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They ate roast whale meat for dinner that night, in a hall filled with many-headed giants, all of them shouting and happy and most of them drunk. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The mead of the giants was cold and salty, but he drank it down, draining the horn, drinking until his breath gave out and he could drink no longer. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The giant careened back into the junkyard, and his right hand fell off, landing in the scrap metal with a horrible CLANG! The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I’m probably about to take one giant step toward the definition of conspiracy. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Now they were in the middle of the open sea, completely on their own, sailing to the Mare Nostrum, where all the scary monsters and nasty giants had come from. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, all the characters around me vanished, leaving me alone in the giant war room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And I almost looked up to see if my chute would catch air or just flutter around up there like a giant dirty sock. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At one end is a small stage with colorful handmade quilts hanging on either side of a giant gold cross. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Outside in the darkness, the endless mass of pack ice was grinding against itself like a restless giant breaking mountains in its sleep. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

A giant view screen crackled into life on the wall behind him. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I’d better ring him later and tell him I’ll play Hopefully someone will break my neck in the middle of a giant nettle patch. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She looks out at the giant wave pool at the end of the room. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

As if her words signaled the next stage in the assault, the giant stone double doors to the chamber shuddered as something crashed against them. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The door was opened by a mustached giant with the eyes of a schoolgirl. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind each door there were staggering supplies of candy: giant boxes of Mars Bars, Hershey’s Kisses, Snickers, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Jolly Ranchers, and huge, squirming nests of Gummi Worms. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Just that there’s a giant snake behind you.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

We keep walking and not talking until we get to a giant concrete and glass monstrosity of a building. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The giant three-headed dog Cerberus growled in the gloom, but he let them pass. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She in her pink dress and me in my green suit, the two of us looking like a giant patchwork quilt. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He stood there with his right hand resting on the giant gun on his hip, then tapped on the window and made a rolling motion with his hand. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The thought of it terrified the giant, who began to shake like an enormous pudding. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tiny humpback looked dead at the giant. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And when the core at last burns itself out, will some of the Earth slump into the void, leaving a giant sinkhole on the surface? A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Later, the Captain stopped all the hand digging and brought in giant machines, called continuous miners, to tear the coal from its seams. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The abandoned train station next to the river is boarded up now, the red paint peeling off in giant strips. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

On reflection he did not fancy a second meeting with the giant Poisonteeth, whether it was alive, dead, or just pretending, as Poisonteeth often did. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But as soon as the giant was in range, he shoved the tree straight down the monster’s throat. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The giant man motioned for me to join them. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Arm remembered stories his mother had told him about a giant serpent that inhabited such places. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You sacrificed yourself to stop the giant from waking. I could never be that brave.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The building loomed above us, soaring bell towers framing its giant dome. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It’s what scientists believe holds the Milky Way and all other galaxies together, kind of like a giant spiderweb. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

His large round face with its wide-set eyes leered down at me like a giant floating balloon that I’d seen in a Thanksgiving Day parade. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, I stare into a giant stainless-steel refrigerator to find ingredients, but it’s impossible to focus. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I imagined the universe as a giant set of LEGOs, all those pieces constructing endless forms, then coming apart only to create new forms. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Have you ever kicked out of snow boots and into shoes with a giant crowd watching? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

After we’d picked up our spoons and bowls a lady dug a big mess of oatmeal out of a giant pot and swopped it down into our bowls. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

While Max distracted her inside the cafeteria, Zara and I would run out to the blacktop and make a giant O out of pebbles. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Moving around the same patch of black water, towing a giant fish. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was no power, and so the campus looked as though a giant blue-black blanket had covered it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I continued to feel as if we were falling backward, our whole family in a giant trust fall. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

His stomach swooped as he noticed one strand of the giant web vibrate like a plucked string, and then something large skittered down a tree to his immediate right. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The 1930s saw some giants of ‘musical comedy’, as it mostly was at that time, straddle the twin worlds of Broadway and Hollywood - among them George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I grabbed her out of my hood, aimed at the giant bronze woman in the courtyard, then threw the best spiral I’d ever tossed in my life. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I shouted again—but she was gone already, disappeared down the giant’s throat. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Because BHS is a giant school with a giant population of students, I don’t see Violet as often as you might think. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A growl of agreement rose from the assembled giants. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was no sign of any of the other champions, merpeople, Ron — nor, thankfully, the giant squid. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She barely stopped herself from crumpling onto the street as the giant shadow creature dragged itself forward, towering over her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The little nose you made has been squashed by a giant clay splotch spread across the face. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I liked being able to look down on the park and the rest of the city, and I liked visiting my giant saguaro. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

What I’m more worried about is the giant zit on my forehead. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

And as he was capable of giant joy, so did he harbor huge sorrow, so that when his dog died the world ended. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Join hands and make a giant, spinning circle where people show off their footwork. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Father says his father was a giant of a man — somehow his size came down to me. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

There was a heartbeat in those stands that dotted the Friday nights of Texas and Oklahoma and Ohio and Pennsylvania and Florida and all of America like a galaxy of stars, a giant, lurking heartbeat. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw flashes of light, and I realized the giant was trying to swat them. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Now they just had to defeat the giants, preferably without destroying the city of Rome, and get out of here to find their friends. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The two giant video monitors on either side of the stage were instantly filled with a grainy, sixty-second movie about everything that happened in the cavern. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Normally I’d poke fun at her but she was doing so well, and I didn’t want to be the mean giant that she wished was dead. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The critics respond with a countertheory: perhaps the giants succumbed instead to a change in climate, such as a severe drought on the already chronically dry Australian continent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

All around the Keys you can see their propeller trenches—long ugly gouges, like giant fingernail scrapes, across the tidal banks. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I had imagined that if there were an explosion there we would have 4.3 years to watch the light of this magnificent event spreading across the sky, as if tipped from a giant can. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Shortly we were standing before the derelict giant. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

But now, as he watched her lift up the giant man using only her words, he felt something shift inside him. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Look at this—I drew a giant monster rabbit!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

But there are certainly good reasons to believe that if Homo sapiens had never gone Down Under, it would still be home to marsupial lions, diprotodons and giant kangaroos. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew the giant was meant to fight at their side. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Her pupils were so dilated that her eyes glittered and shone, becoming giant orbs of darkness. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He cackled so hard a brilliant tear like a giant diamond rolled down his cheek. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I was talking to a giant rabbit at this moment…. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He just held up the goose in his giant hand, ready to crush the life out of him. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe there would be donuts, giant donuts, for breakfast. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Trees shattered. There were giant colored butterflies. I fell in a pit of orange bubbles.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Again he tastes the dust on his tongue, sees the twisted train, the giant overturned iron wheels. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He told them about the dark giant, and the strange woman on Half-Blood Hill, offering him a multiple-choice death. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Piper had learned more about olive oil than she ever wanted to know, but no giants attacked them. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The children jumped up onto the truck and swarmed like ants all over the giant peach, eating and eating to their hearts’ content. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

As we entered, a giant man with shaved blond hair, a business suit, and a holster with a gun in it walked in. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

However, it was seldom that these gentle giants lost their tempers and attacked. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

After walking about half a mile, I reached a giant mound of old cars and trucks piled haphazardly along the stacks’ eastern perimeter. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It looked like a Lego giant had just thrown up in here. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

By now Father had hung huge models of the flying machines—some up to six feet in wingspan—from the rafters, and these would twist and turn as if they were giant captive moths. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women then unfolded blankets that were stacked against the shelter wall like giant wafers. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be there for him, to comfort him and speak into his giant ear that he was not alone. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Giant had definitely slowed down and was now running more normally, although normal was a silly word to use to describe a galloping giant. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, he would not have even known it was a lake at all if it wasn't for the giant moon reflected in the water. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I watched her lift the giant lid of the pit and fork out a great chunk of meat. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, okay, I’m talking to a giant cockroach,” thought Gregor. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I paused as a giant yawn escaped my mouth. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He slammed his shield into the giant’s nose until Alcyoneus began to snore. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

As Celaena and Chaol entered the giant sparring room in the morning, she glanced at her competitors and remembered she wasn’t the only one who hadn’t a clue what to expect. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In another tank, peeking out from its cement cave, was a squid the size of an eighteen-wheeler, with a beak like a giant bolt cutter. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You look good,” Warren says as he stares at my braids and giant gold earrings. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She was now kneeling right on the edge of the hole with her head down and her enormous behind sticking up in the air like a giant mushroom. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

The giant snapped back an answer, as if he was annoyed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

John Henry took two giant steps to the right, then nodded at me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He’s a junior like me, and he carries a double-spaced copy of the script clipped into a giant blue binder, exploding with pencil notes. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

He saw a giant eagle circling high above. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It would’ve been a perfect skipping stone if you was a giant. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The place looks more like a college campus than the home of a retail giant. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The houses were like giant boxes of candy here, multicolored, bright, some even obnoxiously neon. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Stephanie’s white apron has splotches of curry on it, making the giant pink cupcake on the front look like it has orange swirls. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The crofter’s village stood between two lakes, the larger dotted with small wooded islands that punched up through the ice like the frozen fists of some drowned giant. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I said, grabbing Peach by the arm as he almost skipped into a giant puddle. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You come help me with these fancy contraptions, let Old Familiar take care of those poison flies, and my ax will handle that giant over there, sure it will.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In four hours, I'm going to ride a giant explosion into orbit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Weird,” I say, stepping over an abandoned shoe, “because I didn’t think there were any giant bridges with sports stadiums in the background during the Holocaust.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, a glimpse of the giant rocket, JimmyTrotter’s precious Saturn V, materialized out of snow, fuzz, and horizontal lines. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Matthias gasped with shock as a giant horse galloped past, its mane streaming out, eyes rolling in panic. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Mrs. McCraw took giant gulps of air and tried to apologize, but my mom stood firm, holding the door open. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m being squeezed around the middle by a giant hand. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when they got close and saw what the giants really looked like, they began to sweat with fear. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Frank, turn into a giant eagle. Don’t worry about me. Get her back to the Argo II!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In some ancient time, an enormous tree had fallen in a giant wind. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

On their banner was a giant in shattered chains that told him that these were Umber men, down from the northlands beyond the Last River. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes and imagined a giant donut with sprinkles on top of it and cream inside of it. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

What if the small armadillos of today had arisen from a giant ancestral armadillo? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

There aren’t just sparks between us, there’s a giant flame leaping back and forth, engulfing us. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Lunch is actually amazing, because Morgan and Bram both had birthdays over the long weekend, and Leah’s very strict about everyone getting their own giant sheet cake. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The whole area was crawling with giant scorpions. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The giant rolls of newsprint, the rhythmic clacketing of the press—I loved it all. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then he saw the giant...or at least Percy guessed that he was a giant. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then he had failed to stop a giant shrimp attack on the Argo II. Then the ichthyocentaurs, Chiron’s brothers, hadn’t even wanted to meet him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It’s not easy with this giant nervous ball gnawing at my stomach. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he was outside, the BFG set off across the great hot yellow wasteland where the blue rocks lay and the dead trees stood and where all the other giants were skulking about. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shamika shouted, then turned to Moss with a giant smile on her face. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Two giants sat on the outskirts of the group, casting massive shadows over the scene, their faces cruel, rough-hewn like rock. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In only eleven days, the giants planned to awaken Gaia. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She sailed over the heads of the Cyclopes and ogres, landed in the centre of the courtyard and pushed her way into the circle of giants. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

At the cooling station, I take giant swigs from my water bottle, then wet the bandanna I use to wipe the salt and perspiration off my grimy face. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It was clear from the beginning that the giant meatpacking companies were on the same page, filling almost every position with white workers. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When it began to get dark, the helicopters switched on powerful searchlights and trained them on to the galloping giant so as to keep him in sight. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He woke with a single, giant watery eye staring at him. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Knots of all sorts poked beneath the bottom edge of the giant’s gray suit jacket. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Rus woofed again, wagged his giant shaggy tail against the bed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

For a moment, she thought of the giant library in the Night Bazaar, and the book with her name on it. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“How did you know the giant could do that?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But I smile, because the thought of a giant, smoking hole in Blackcliff’s wall is a happy one. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the Parthenon, the giants roared in triumph. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Even the beaches, man— they put up all these giant hotels and only goober tourists are allowed. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the dragons and giant scorpions ran away when she came dose. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

My father, glowing with a blue aura of power, rode a defiant circle around the giants legs. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

"Where is it, boy? Where is it?" roared the giant "boss" creature, his hulking, fly-infested body bent over so his head wouldn't scrape the ceiling. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was good to be on the sea after the winter storms, with the new spear in my hand, but all the morning as I hunted the giant devilfish I kept thinking of Rontu. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music starts, and we hop into a set of giant clapping bamboo poles on the floor. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Were they all really bounded by a single day, by one period of unbroken wakefulness, from the innocent rehearsals of her play to the emergence of the giant from the mist? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You think I’d leave my team behind? After surviving Fleecy’s wheat germ, running from cannibals, and hiding under blue giant butts in Alaska? Come on!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

As the trees grew taller, the lower branches fell off, so they grew into giant lollipops. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel hadn’t felt anything like it since the cave in Alaska where Gaea had forced her to resurrect Porphyrion the giant king. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Why not something more interesting like, say, a giant moth? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

So paranoid he even felt like every clock was actually a giant eye, and every time the bell rang he imagined it was the building laughing at him. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Anya hid behind the willow tree and watched the two giants hack and swing at each other. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Werfel and the Foreign Secretary reached a landing where there was a giant metal orb covered with spikes next to a huge crank. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The giant warthog had slimed his old clothes pretty badly, so Piper had taken him for some emergency shopping in Pylos. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Against such power, even Titans and giants were hopelessly outmatched. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They were the work of Hephaestus - bronze mechanical eyes embedded in the giant’s sockets. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“The giants bane stands gold and pale, Won with pain from a woven jail.’ The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

‘Cross your figglers! Here we go! We is going right past all these other giants! Is you seeing that whopping great one, the one nearest to us?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the explosion, Piper and Jason - free-falling and unconscious - were plucked out of the sky by giant eagles and brought to safety, but Leo did not reappear. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We visit the Indiana Moon Tree, which is a giant sycamore more than thirty years old that grew from a seed taken to the moon and brought back. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They ran in no particular direction and found themselves back in the shrine room, right behind the giant Mimas. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There was something magical about it: the low walls, all that remained of some ancient hall, and the pillars looming over me like giants in an ancient playground. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

For a while Hazel and Frank stood together, watching the remains of the giant melt into the ice. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He wanted to fall upon the floor and call out in a giant voice. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The only things that shone were the giant cockroaches that scurried around like varnished gofers on a film set. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And two delicate slippers with the softest leather soles and two giant pearls on each toe, to light her way to nirvana. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through Reyna’s haze of rage and grief, she noticed the giant’s new scars. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In poor neighborhoods garbage mounded in alleys and overflowed giant trash boxes that became banquet halls for rats and bluebottle flies. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In 1966, he left a steady sales job in Massachusetts and moved everyone to Birmingham, Alabama, because someone had told him, “Alabama is a sleeping giant.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I checked Vonetta’s letter and rolled my eyes about the “giant crab” part. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The exposition was to be a giant white banner waved in Mrs. Astor’s face. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t much to do on Incipio except chat with other noobs or shop in one of the giant virtual malls that covered the planet. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

His thoughts were all of water monsters, of giant serpents, of demons, kelpies, and sprites... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Some giant you are,” Inigo said then, and he stepped over Fezzik and hurried down the rest of the darkened stairs. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But when the sun descended, when the shadows of the square’s giant shade trees met and combined, the coldness as well as darkness numbed the crowd. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had prayed to her mother . . . and been blessed with the arrival of a homicidal giant. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

During the campaign three notorious giants were accounted for—two of them by Arthur himself. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They turn right and left, past a walnut tree like a giant charred toothpick jammed into the ground, past two crows picking at something unidentifiable, until they reach the base of the ramparts. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

‘All of those man-eating giants is enormous and very fierce! They is all at least two times my wideness and double my royal highness!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyson had faced down fire-breathing bulls and sea monsters and cannibal giants. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

‘I’m very kindly. A helping sort of giant.’ Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When Dad was tucking me in that night, the night before the worst day, I asked if the world was a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He hung suspended for a moment, holding to the end of it as it stretched straight up through the Snow Sand to the security of the giant tree. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me, are you using the phone?” the giant black woman with the cane asks as I stare at it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The trailer was a fifty-foot flatbed rigged for scrapping, essentially a giant bucket. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She gives the smallest nod—and a giant eye roll—and then goes into the classroom. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

What if I’m just wasting my time in here, and Ren is a giant red herring? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As I spoke and pulled the story out of the sand, I kept an eye on the giant fetterlings. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Waves were splashing over the dwarfs’ heads, and they were gulping air, and their eyes were round with fear when Suttung the giant reached out and plucked first Fjalar and then Galar from the waves. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He just kept thinking: Don't look at me, and hoped the Romans below would fail to notice the giant bronze trireme descending on their city in the middle of morning rush hour. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

‘We defeated the giants together in two seconds. Let’s all go -’ ‘No,’ Zeus said flatly. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I turned once to see Slopper, eyes wide, blankets tucked around his face like a giant baby. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Then a giant beam of light hit me from the side. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

This was the best news I’d had all day, my face nearly split in half from my giant smile. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The last thing I need is to be walking around with a giant footprint on my bag. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Next came a ram and a three-headed elephant, a giant swan, and a graceful antelope. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He almost certainly has in mind the famous saying that we are dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Nobody wanted to go down and do this because the moment a giant was freed, he would be sure to turn on the wretched person who had freed him and gobble him up. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A smoking roll of leaves juts from his mouth like a giant cigar. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped them over his shoulders as if the Athena Parthenos were a giant backpack. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When Dylan and I arrive at the training gym, there’s a giant petition posted on the doors with the names of all the legacy parents who don’t want me participating in the finale. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

At Jesse’s suggestion, I visited a giant bar code site where geeks gathered on weekends to talk about bar code technology. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow he’d managed to climb onto the giant’s back and was hitting him on the head with a bronze shield—BONG! The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He sees Lucas Cader jumping through the window to pick up a chair and break it across the giant’s back. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Of course not. And it looks like beautiful country,” I said, glancing out at giant pine trees. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, I had a giant Afro, and the only way to control it was to have it tied back in this ponytail thing that looked really girly. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Bran saw a bear skull and a wolf skull, half a dozen human skulls and near as many giants. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We were marched down the tunnel flanked by dracaenae, with Kelli and the giant in back, just in case we tried to run for it. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There’s an old-timey soda fountain up against one wall, underneath a twinkly lit ceiling, and light fixtures shaped like giant pink flowers. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Frank transformed into a giant eagle, and the two of them soared toward the ship. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It sounded as though a giant was walking on loose gravel. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mist curled around the giant, hissing and bubbling as it touched his skin. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

This journey began with him, you suspect it will end with him, and everything between is the powdery meal of windmills that might be giants grinding bones to make their bread. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She wondered if she could convince Frank to turn into a giant eagle and carry her, but, before she could ask, she heard footsteps in the sand behind them. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t let me run water to bathe my forehead, so now I’m walking around with a giant lump over my right eye. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When it was opened by the giant, the chest gave off a glacial exhalation. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Like a thousand giant anthills, they covered up all of those black irrigation hoses. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yellin, from his position by the gate, was reasonably upset at the roaring giant gliding down toward them through the darkness. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Beside her, the hulking Secret Service agent Cassius—Cash for short—holds his own copy in one giant hand, racing to finish it first. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The thing about being in darkness that dark is it seems like every sound has to be coming from some giant, many-fanged monster. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

It was a magnificent boat, solid and heavy in the water, over twenty feet long and carved from the trunk of one giant tree. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Kings and Presidents and Prime Ministers and Rulers of every kind showered the enormous giant and the little girl with compliments and thank-yous, as well as all sorts of medals and presents. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he doesn't answer me, and we reach a wide-open room filled with L-shaped couches and giant pillows. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was a new mall, with lots of spotlights swinging through the sky and rainbows going up a giant pyramid. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four of his were green boys, though, and none were giants. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’m like that theoretical brown dwarf star or gas giant planet lurking at the far edges of our solar system, way beyond Pluto. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

But first she intended to hurt this giant so badly he would never forget her name. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe the giant wheels were grinding his bones into a bloody mush. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then they’d begun to land on the boulders and the branches of the giant forest. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Joey said, pointing at all the giant shapes in the darkness. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once they were outside, Emily grabbed his arm and swung it like she was ringing a giant bell. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But if the island was really gone, she had no idea how to find the giant. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I even had heard mention of new giant bombs being prepared. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giants were playing ball with the BFG, vying with each other to see who could throw him the highest. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giant Gilling, for example, and his wife: the dwarfs invited them to come and visit their fortress, and one winter’s day they came. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Huge bundles of giant brown roots tied together with rope were balanced on their heads. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

King Hamlet seemed like a giant to me with his vast chest and great beard. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The silent giant was his niece’s only hope. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This giant was even worse than that sea god Phorcys back in Atlanta, Percy realized. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The squatty shoemaker made the giant woman dance with him. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Which is why I spent all weekend clearing piles of clothes and papers out of the living room, piling everything into my closet in one giant, precarious stack. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The water caught her like a giant Slip ’N Slide, spinning her through trees, making her dizzy. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

About a hundred feet away, the wreckage of the Berg lay cradled between two giant oaks almost as if it had grown there like some sort of giant metal flower. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He didn’t see the giants, so he gestured for his friends to come forward and take a look. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He lifted the giant sword in two hands and swung it. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s saying something about washing my face and swishing some water around in my mouth, but her words sound muffled, like I’m inside a giant bubble. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

He was always wearing these giant, old-man sunglasses that wrapped around his face. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The five hundred dollars Mama owes the bank makes it worse, looming over me like a giant spider spinning a web around my family. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Then I notice a bunch of giant men all around me. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

There’s a black leather couch in the center with a giant flat-screen TV along the wall. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

These included the elephant bird, a flightless creature ten feet tall and weighing almost half a ton—the largest bird in the world—and the giant lemurs, the globe’s largest primates. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man parted the droplets as if they were a giant beaded curtain. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the sky over the giant hole in the earth. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

All your sentences would jumble up like a giant knot if you opened your mouth. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Harry said, “Too bad. I’d have liked to see him in the pet show. Step right up, folks, come and see Calpurnia Virginia Tate and her giant pet moth!” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She remembered a story Old Nan had told once, about a man imprisoned in a dark castle by evil giants. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She remembers the giant puddle of melting snow just outside the door of the trailer, so large that she had to jump across it from the top step to get to dry ground. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

On the battlefield called Vigrid, the gods will fall in battle with the frost giants, and the frost giants will fall in battle with the gods. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

We make a good team, and soon we have about ten giant plastic bags stuffed with the crumpled-up newspaper everything was wrapped in. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We tried to rewire Operation with a giant battery so you'd get electrocuted if you touched the sides. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He saw windmills, just like everyone else—but he believed they were giants. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I watch Guillermo climb the ladder up to the female giant’s head. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The giant Gryffindor hourglass had been hit by a curse, and the rubies within were still falling, with a loud rattle, onto the flagstones below. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They included giant elephant birds, primitive primates called lemurs as big as gorillas, and pygmy hippos. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The giant raised his fist, and a voice cut through the dream. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

‘I is a very honourable giant,’ he said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giant has turned back around and I no longer hear voices, hollering for help. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He was the sweetest man, a gentle giant, the biggest teddy bear in the world. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At the end of the room, the Oompa-Loompas around the giant camera were already beating their tiny drums and beginning to jog up and down to the rhythm. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Its inhabitants were reduced to fabricating adzes out of giant clamshells. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Shanti's in the kitchen, eating a giant bowl of cookies 'n' cream ice cream—her go-to substance in times of stress. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The walls of the chamber made a crackling sound like ice in warm water, and dozens of gems streaked toward the giant, punching through his armor like buckshot. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Caught me a giant tuna, yes I did. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“They were very powerful—and enormous, like the stone giant we found.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They launched themselves at the giant and brought their blades down on Otis’s head. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A flock of gray birds passes over us and settles in a giant tree. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A few of the kids have decided to kick off their weekends by hurling volleyballs at the giant clock. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As soon as Milton saw the bridge strung like a giant, glittering harp over the river, panic seized his soul. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A giant garden with traffic zooming all around it. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Horned King turned with her, and as they crashed through the underbrush and past the first rows of trees, the antlered giant drew closer until both steeds galloped side by side. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Dad craftily installed bags under each toilet seat, which we are to throw out after using, like a giant camping nightmare. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The large stage, with giant towers of speakers on either side, jutted out in front of them. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Henry coughs, and Alex is turning to look at him again when the door opens and Cash’s giant silhouette reappears. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The first pedestal holds a painting of a giant sea dragon crushing a large wooden ship. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She looked like she did in the photos of her holding me as a child — except, bizarrely, with giant hairy apes in her arms. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The giants vanished in twin puffs of smoke. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Old Familiar cawed twice, and then we took off, flapping in a giant, gusty circle as we built up speed and climbed higher and higher. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Nobody said a thing while the giant was working, but as he slid the first six fat, juicy, slightly burnt sausages from the poker, Dudley fidgeted a little. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Over the sleeping giant of the Malvern Hills, a double rainbow linked the Worcestershire Beacon with the British Camp. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

There was a giant hole in my knowledge bank about these fundamental parts of history that had been skipped over in all of my education up until now. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Even under the protection of the giant’s legs, Percy could feel the temperature drop. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then she pushed the door open and took one big giant step right into the living room before anyone told her she could. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as he went he threw the giant glove into the open mouth. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Not here. Not ever! ‘You cannot stop us!’ the giant yelled. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Even today these megalithic monuments have an awe-inspiring, superhuman air about them, as if they were the work of a forgotten race of giants. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood on the back of a giant bird—a crow, I think—as big as a private jet. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Tucking them into her fur-lined pockets, she approached Chaol, who was standing near the edge of the giant chalk circle that had been drawn on the flagstones. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Mom drives David to school so he can hand in some giant science project on a trifold display. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The arena floor remained solid, but otherwise the stadium looked as if it hadn’t hosted a good giant killing for eons. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Among the dead, Lee Fletcher from the Apollo cabin had been downed by a giants club. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Once a semblance of silence had descended, I got on the public comm channel, which had the same effect as turning on a giant PA system. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

If a thousand giant octopuses had squirted ink at the same time, at the bottom of the deepest, most sunless ocean trench, it could not have been blacker. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The snowmen the squires had built had grown into monstrous giants, ten feet tall and hideously misshapen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen giant eagles flew in formation behind her— prepared for ambulance airlift duty if necessary. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He used the beam like a giant eye, to peer into the shadows. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Jason and his friends were surrounded by the Olympians, now human-sized, tiny next to the giants, but glowing with power. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

How could I leave them alone with a giant turkey and mounds of inedible cranberry sauce? Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

With most of the slaves working the mines, and only a few toiling inside the ramshackle refining sheds, the giant yard was almost deserted. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“The second step you must take — and at once,” Dumbledore pressed on, “is to send envoys to the giants.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Behind them in the cavern the giant adder settled down to a leisurely slither, his tongue flickered wickedly. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He took a step toward them and stopped, another step, stopped, and then suddenly, as though yanked into the air by a giant invisible rope, he leaped. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

‘The Queen’s orders were to follow the giant and that’s exactly what I’m doing.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The broken giant’s skull remained a broken giant’s skull, yellowed and cracked, grinning its stained and savage grin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The giant licked his lips when he saw us. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It set its giant hands on either side of his window, lowering its head until its huge eyes filled the frame, holding Conor with its glare. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He looked up: A giant stood before him, twenty feet high, its head hidden in shadow, nothing but its treelike, hairy shins illuminated by light from the castle doors. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Walking toward the giant, through the village, was my idiot brother-in-law, Charles the bailiff. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

That way I can see the giant cathedral and the water spouting from the fountain and the happy people strolling under the trees. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped at a giant boulder beside the trail, where Python lay in the sun. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A star like the Sun will end its days, as we have seen, as a red giant and then a white dwarf. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ate breakfast with the giant: he pulled whole cows and sheep from his provision bag and crunched them down; the three companions ate more sparingly. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Though wind and rain had worn its features some, it looked just like a giant who’d sunk up to its neck in the lake. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They occupy a massive acropolis with fifteen giant columns atop the only high ground, overlooking the pond. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Holding hands, we swim farther out and see gliding stingrays that look like giant white-bellied birds. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sophie, peeping out from her pocket, examined the nine sleeping giants. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was a giant baby, an enormous child. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A giant column of muscle and flesh suddenly leaped upward— ton after ton of flesh suddenly pouring itself skyward in defiance of gravity. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had started to turn, to flee, when a giant noose snaked through the air, cast by one of the warriors. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We headed back the way we came, in the direction of the giant screen. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

In a giant, empty, decaying building which had once housed thousands, a single TV set hawked its wares to an uninhabited room. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

If they wasted time searching through Alaska looking for the giant’s lair, Gaea’s armies would destroy the Romans... and Percy’s other friends, wherever they were. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I cleared away the episodes of Riptide and Misfits of Science I’d programmed and dropped in a few back-to-back flicks starring Gamera, my favorite giant flying turtle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The giant man jerked in surprise, then relaxed when he saw who it was. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And there below these giant white letters are column after column, line after line, that say Before I die I want to . All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The giant’s spells now broken, his soldiers, seeing that they had been led by a snake, pledged their loyalty to me. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For them, life was only as good as their next adventure, and they chased after the wildest ones like whalers hunting giants across the mighty seas. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Gaea and the giants weren’t done causing trouble—not by a long shot. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The Scalp Ceremony lay to rest the Japanese souls in the green humid jungles, and it satisfied the female giant who fed on the dreams of warriors. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The birds themselves swooped and cried, weaving in and out of immense, curved ridges that could only be spines, segmented and spurred, and, unmistakably: giant hands, giant feet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The giant swung his hammer, but they dodged it easily. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Anna and Mr. Archie got in the act, swinging a rake and a length of plastic pipe respectively, swatting Clock Watchers like giant bugs. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The giants pointed their weapons, ready to turn Percy and Jason into a demigod-kabob. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Reyna studied the giant’s handsome, cruel face, his glowing mechanical eyes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Dearly as she loved Iorek, and strong as her faith was in him, she couldn’t really believe that he would ever beat this giant among giant bears. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond him stood another giant man who rivaled Sigurd in sheer mass. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The metal buckles on his slippers stung like bites from giant mosquitoes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Calder’s job was to organize the data the class collected into a giant chart. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

There’s Noah being held midair in the palm of a giant and that giant is Mom. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Climbing the giant swells, the boat clung to the sea anchors like a mountain climber to a rope. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even though she was smaller than Pong, she felt like a giant. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I could see the backs of three women, stirring and chopping and moving pans around on a couple of giant stoves. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And there is a giant whoosh of light. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

He takes a drag, exhales a long gray stream of smoke, then gestures at the giants. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The giant growled and charged at Hazel, but Arion nimbly darted out of the way. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

My siblings and I spent much of our time in line for water, standing with empty jugs to fill from a giant plastic tank in a blue tent. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

With a deafening blast, a white-hot bolt arced from the sky, straight through Jason’s body as he leaped, wreathed in lightning, at the giant king. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The giant was coming, wrapped in shadows, huge and heavy and bent on murder. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

RON: The trolls could be going to a party, the giants to a wedding, you could be getting bad dreams because you’re worried about Albus, and your scar could be hurting because you’re getting old. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

A woman carrying a giant ring of keys passed their bench and headed up the stairs. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The boy listened to the wind passing through the tops of the tall pines; he thought they moved like giant brooms sweeping the sky. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Loki wrapped the falcon cloak tightly about himself and, in falcon form, flapped his wings and rose, faster even than an eagle, and was gone, flying north, toward the lands of the frost giants. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The nearest island was nothing more than a giant rock with the barest scrub of green. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Together, the giants picked up a fake mountain as big as Percy’s New York apartment and hurled it at the demigods. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When he saw it was me he jerked away, took one more giant huh, then stared. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of hostels, giant projects built by the government for housing migrant workers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A giant black-complected man walked up to Bloom and in perfect House of Lords English said, “I suggest you be more civil. Otherwise I may lose my temper and throw you into the water.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She looked down at her giant white shirt, her fat paisley tie, and her half-dead purple corduroys. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Because with a roar, a cloud of burning darkness lifted two giant fists over the cliff top. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Stanley awoke in a meadow, looking up at the giant rock tower. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The giant was half the length of my spear from the reef, but while I watched, one of his long arms ran out like a snake and felt its way into the crevice. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he had deserted the army for self-imposed incarceration in “a giant, demented prison.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He worked the machines at the end of the line, where the paper is rolled into giant bundles. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We step through the automatic doors, and the first thing I see is a bag display: giant canvas zipper totes and faux-leather purses and, already, a summery display of woven beach bags. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Heaven forbid they leave up the giant turkey display for even a minute longer. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Neither of them seemed to notice the giant silver beasts around them. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My chest felt like my giant saguaro was sitting on it. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The boards began to come apart, and the loose mud under the walkways began to slide toward that giant bathtub drain. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear nothing, but I can see they’re talking, and Mary’s giant- looking hand shakes that of his daughter. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The giant lamp spun past, blasting us with light, turning us into glowing white cutouts. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In this part of Brooklyn, with its giant oak trees and multimillion-dollar brownstones, police and ambulance sirens mean that something really did go down. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A giant encyclopedia marked A–F squawked at a dictionary. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He never thought he’d miss sleeping in a giant’s leather bed in a drakon-bone hut in a festering cesspool, but right now that sounded like Elysium. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In fact, for all their size, diprotodons and Australia’s other giants probably wouldn’t have been that hard to hunt because they would have been taken totally by surprise by their two-legged assailants. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A golden giant was waiting to break him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He had been practicing on giant sausages all the afternoon and had the movements down pretty pat, but then, giant sausages weren’t necks and all the wishing in the world wouldn’t make them so. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Men who make Committees and go around stealing mothers and hurting them, they’re just red ants killing black ants in a giant universe that has tornadoes bigger than the biggest thing we have ever built. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In a minute he rang his kiddy bell as he passed me on his giant tricycle with the red wagon full of meals trailing behind. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“On the edge of the world sea,” he said, “lives the giant king Hymir. He owns a cauldron three miles deep. It’s the biggest cauldron there has ever been.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It looked like a giant halved melon with the round side out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lit by the pale glow from the nearly full moon, Horn Rock rose like a giant gray tusk from the edge of the bluff and jutted up into the night sky. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were six well-trained efficient men working on each giant and within ten minutes eight out of the nine giants had been trussed up like chickens and were still snoring contentedly. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt like a giant lost from her homeland. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The giant diprotodon appeared in Australia more than 1.5 million years ago and successfully weathered at least ten previous ice ages. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even went on the giant water slide, and wound up trying it over and over again. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Percy wanted to draw his sword and give the giant a haircut starting at the neck, but he was powerless to act. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The giant took a gulp of tea and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The planet looked like a giant swirling blue marble, half a marble, really, surrounded by blackness. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The giant boat jolts and drops, fighting the waves as we venture out into the open water. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Cut along like I am using giant scissors. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“I dreamed a giant called Hagrid came to tell me I was going to a school for wizards. When I open my eyes I’ll be at home in my cupboard.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The coral was scribbled in the sea as though a giant had bent down to reproduce the shape of the island in a flowing chalk line but tired before he had finished. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The giants raised it above their heads, preparing to throw, and Percy caused a water pipe to burst at their feet, shaking the floor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She folded her wings around me in a giant feathery hug, and I tolerated it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

On the day of her daughter's funeral, she wore a giant pink flower pinned to her lapel. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Room 145 was like a giant educational glacier, with layer upon layer of accumulated materials. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I remember a story about twin giants. They tried to reach Mount Olympus by piling up a bunch of mountains.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Theoretically, that leaves us enough time. It’s only July fifth. We should be able to close the Doors of Death, then find the giants’ HQ and stop them from waking Gaea before August first.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Jason stood in the underground temple of Epirus, the giant Clytius looming over him, speaking in a chorus of disembodied voices: It took all of you together to defeat me. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There are police officers and men dressed as the Avengers standing underneath the giant subway sign that’s lit up like the billboards for Broadway shows, American Eagle Outfitters, and more. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Genie imagined him and Grandpop were sitting on a giant spoon, and God was holding them up to his mouth and blowing on them like hot soup. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And then Celia’s giant nonsense word began to break apart into smaller, more intelligible ones. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They could feel the dog’s hot, smelly breath as they approached the giant heads. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

As I followed Ray outside, a giant web of lightning appeared in the sky like a crack in a glass, and lit up the neighborhood as bright as daytime for half a second. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In the huge Colosseum, with thousands of cheering ghosts, the god Bacchus staring down at him, and the two twelve-foot giants looming over him, Percy felt as small and insignificant as a bug. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He set her next to Percy on the giant’s bed, and she closed her eyes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She looked as though she wanted to drop to her knees and embrace the entire palace as if it were a sad giant dog. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Stacks and stacks of old copies of the Searchlight were scattered haphazardly around the giant metal printing press. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She sets down her briefcase, throws her black bag into the closet up front, slaps her hands together like giant paddles, and tells everybody to get quiet. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The giant axon of the Woods Hole squid became the apparatus for the creation of today's astonishing neurobiology. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In another corner stood a giant metal egg about the size of a man. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then for no good reason I saw myself as Raw Head and Bloody Bones, spinning into nothing under giant wheels and thunder. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The fact that the giant’s table and chair towered far above the smaller table simply could not be helped. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giant peered closer still, mouthing something, as if he was reading it, and then nodded. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z