The Dark is Rising
by Susan Cooper
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- used good/paperback
- ISBN 10
- 054505561X
- ISBN 13
- 9780545055611
- Seller
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
This book has been read, minor crease on corner of front cover, some wear on edges of front and back covers, no markings on inner pages. Spine intact, minor creases.
This night will be bad and tomorrow will be beyond imagining. It's Midwinter's Eve, the day before Will's eleventh birthday. But there is an atmosphere of fear in the familiar countryside around him. This will be a birthday like no other. Will discovers that he has the power of the Old Ones, and that he must embark on a quest to vanquish the terrifyingly evil magic of the Dark. The second novel in Susan Cooper's highly acclaimed Dark is Rising sequence.
Susan Cooper's latest book is the YA novel "Ghost Hawk" (2013). Susan Cooper was born in 1935, and grew up in England's Buckinghamshire, an area that was green countryside then but has since become part of Greater London. As a child, she loved to read, as did her younger brother, who also became a writer. After attending Oxford, where she became the first woman to ever edit that university's newspaper, Cooper worked as a reporter and feature writer for London's Sunday Times; her first boss was James Bond creator Ian Fleming. Cooper wrote her first book for young readers in response to a publishing house competition; "Over Sea, Under Stone" would later form the basis for her critically acclaimed five-book fantasy sequence, "The Dark Is Rising."
Synopsis
On the Midwinter Day that is his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers a special gift-- that he is the last of the Old Ones, immortals dedicated to keeping the world from domination by the forces of evil, the Dark. At once, he is plunged into a quest for the six magical Signs that will one day aid the Old Ones in the final battle between the Dark and the Light. And for the twelve days of Christmas, while the Dark is rising, life for Will is full of wonder, terror, and delight.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ohkwaho Books and Fine Art (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66-2023
- Title
- The Dark is Rising
- Author
- Susan Cooper
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- used good
- Jacket Condition
- paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 054505561X
- ISBN 13
- 9780545055611
- Publisher
- Scholastic
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- January
- Pages
- 244
- Size
- 19.1 x 13.1 cm
- Keywords
- FIction, Sci-Fi, Young Adult
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Oakville, Ontario
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