Mass Market Paperback (April 30th, 1987): $5.Juvenile Fiction / Legends, Myths, Fables / Arthurian. Susan Cooper lives on a saltmarsh island in Massachusetts, and you can visit her online at. Its Midwinters Eve, the day before Wills eleventh birthday. This night will be bad and tomorrow will be beyond imagining. She combines fantasy with history in Victory (a Washington Post Top Ten Books for Children pick), King of Shadows, Ghost Hawk, and her magical The Boggart and the Monster, second in a trilogy, which won the Scottish Arts Council’s Children’s Book Award. Pitching its eleven-year old protagonist into a sinister world of twisted folklore and mythic evil, The Dark is Rising is a transfixing experience and one of the building blocks of Young Adult fiction. Her books’ accolades include the Newbery Medal, a Newbery Honor, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and five shortlists for the Carnegie Medal. Susan Cooper is one of our foremost fantasy authors her classic five-book fantasy sequence The Dark Is Rising has sold millions of copies worldwide. Will is the last-born of the Old Ones, immortals dedicated to saving the world from the forces of evil.
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