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The Dark Is Rising

The Dark Is Rising
Illustrated by: Alan Cober
This edition: Trade Paperback, 1088 pages
Ages: 9 - 14
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Awards and Nominations

  • ALA Newbery Honor Book
  • African Studies Assn Children's Bk Award
  • Agatha Award Finalist
  • ALA Notable Children's Books
  • Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Award
  • Boston Globe/Horn Book Award
  • Carnegie Medal Honor Book
  • Kate Greenaway Medal Honor Book
  • Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Finalist
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Description

Susan Cooper's award-winning Dark Is Rising sequence, which has delighted fantasy readers for over forty years, can be found for the first time in one brilliant volume!

The relentless battle between the Light and the Dark has raged since the beginning of time. Neither side has ever been able to claim absolute victory...and so the fight continues. But every so often the evil surges, and a member of the Light must step forward if the world is to find its way out of the darkness.

It is at the center of this epic struggle that three ordinary children, and one not-so-ordinary child, find themselves. The danger is overwhelming and the stakes have never been higher. Will the Light finally be able to conquer the Dark--or will all good be lost forever?

"Susan Cooper is one of the few contemporary writers who has the vivid imagination, the narrative power, and the moral vision that permit her to create the kind of sweeping conflict between good and evil that lies at the heart of all great fantasy. Tolkien had it. So did C. S. Lewis. And Cooper writes in the same tradition."

-- Psychology Today