About this title: The fourth entry in the five book Dark is Rising series that also includes OVER SEA, UNDER STONE and SILVER ON THE TREE. Sickly Will Stanton, a visitor in Wales from England, gets caught up in the quest to find the golden harp that will awaken those destined to fight the final battle between the Dark and the Light. Winner of the 1976 Newbery ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780689500299ISBN:0689500297
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 224 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Edition: Aladdin Paperbacks
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780689710896ISBN:0689710895
Description: covers creased & slightly shelfworn; copy yellowed due to age, very clean & tight reading copy. Mass Market (Rack) PB, glued binding, 165 pp. Book 4 Dark Is Rising Sequence read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780689710896ISBN:0689710895
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Book is in brand new condition-NO flaws to note. SHIPS V FAST! ! ! Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 165 p. Dark is Rising Sequence (Paperback). Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Scholastic
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780689710896ISBN:0689710895
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 165 p. Dark is Rising Sequence (Paperback). Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Simon Schuster Children's Publishing
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780689710896ISBN:0689710895
Description: New. This book has not been read and shows no obvious defects. It may have a remainder mark. Our ultimate goal is to provide you with a satisfying customer experience. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780689829840ISBN:0689829841
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Light edge wear to soft cover. Light hint of page tanning from age. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 176 p. Dark is Rising Sequence (Paperback). Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
"This book is the 4th in the Dark is Rising series. It's the one that won the Newbery and I think that's a deserved honor. I also think it's the best one with the most depth to it. It's about Will on his quest for the Light and it is just really good and kept me much more engaged than the ones that came before it. It also did a better job of explaining instead of just intimating and innuendo-ing like the other books."
"I think "The Dark is Rising" is the best one so far, but this one's pretty compelling, too. I do struggle a little with the amount of luck (fate?) involved in the characters' experiences. That is, they often make just the right choice, or find themselves in just the right place at the right time, often by accident, and this isn't really explained. If the characters are all just caught up in a story that's already finished (which, of course, they actually are, but nevermind that), their actions lose some meaning; you can hardly get credit for what you can't have helped but do."
"I picked up this book because it was on the Newberry Medal shelving in the Children's section of my local public library. I am not disappointed that I read it, and perhaps my rating does not do it justice. The story is about a young boy who has a mysterious mission to stop the advancing Dark forces, and because of his health is sent to recover with some family friends in the Welsh countryside. He befriends a boy his age with a mysterious past and in their own ways they each discover their inner strengths.
When I finished this book I was interested in knowing the conclusion of this great war between good and evil so I went back to the library and checked out the next and final book of the series. I was disappointed to find that it was nearly three times as long and had a terribly slow start, so slow that I didn't even get through the first chapter.
One very positive aspect of this book is that although it is the third in the series, the author does not assume so much familiarity with past plots and lingo and a new reader like myself was unable to follow the storyline."
"Okay, now I see what Susan Cooper fans are talking about. This is simply a superb story at every level: the characters, the story-telling, and Cooper's remarkable prose are in top form throughout. This book could not have been better.
I can't help but notice that I enjoyed this and Greenwitch -- the too shortest novels in the series -- far more than I did the others. For some inexplicable reason, I find it takes me an unusual amount of time to read her books; perhaps Cooper is better in smaller doses?"
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