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Dark Is Rising (Dark is Rising Sequence #2) by Susan Cooper
Category: Children's fantasy
It's mid-winter's Eve, the day before Will's 11th birthday. But there is an atmosphere of fear in the familiar countryside around him. And why does Mr Dawson the farmer give him an iron talisman, as if for protection?
Dawn of Fear by Susan Cooper
Category: Fiction
Sirens are blaring. Families huddle in bomb shelters. A nearby city is in flames. For Derek and his friends, night-time air raids are a normal part of everyday life. When a particularly violent raid closes their school for a few days, the boys use the time to complete construction of their secret camp. ...Show more
Ghost Hawk by Susan Cooper
Category: Young Adult Fiction
In the winter of his eleventh year, Little Hawk goes deep into the forest, where he must endure a three-month test of solitude and survival which will turn him into a man. But outside the woods, the world is changing. English settlers are landing on the shores of the New World, and tensions between nati ...Show more
Green Boy by Susan Cooper
Category: Fiction
Long Pond Cay, in the Bahamas, is a magical white-sand island. But the magic becomes a nightmare for Trey and Lou when they are thrown into another world - a world that is threatening, polluted and overcrowded. Here Lou, the mute seven-year-old, is greeted as the mythic hero, Lugh. But will he bring the ...Show more
Greenwitch (Dark is Rising Sequence #3) by Susan Cooper
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Dark Is Rising
This is the third book in the fantasy series, "The Dark Is Rising". The children are on holiday in Cornwall, still on the quest for the stolen grail. Jane goes to the ancient ceremony when the Greenwitch is pitched into the sea, and she makes a perilous wish - but one which unexpectedly brings great goo ...Show more
Greenwitch (The Dark Is Rising Sequence #3) by Susan Cooper
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: The Dark Is Rising Sequence
In their desperate quest to find the grail, stolen by the forces of the Dark, the Drew children have returned to Trewissick. One night, in a strange ceremony, Jane watches the village women construct the Greenwitch: an ancient offering to the sea. Overcome by the Greenwitch's power, Jane makes a perilo ...Show more
Greenwitch (The Dark is Rising #3) by Susan Cooper
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: The Dark is Rising
In their desperate quest to find the grail, stolen by the forces of the Dark, the Drew children have returned to Trewissick. One night, in a strange ceremony, Jane watches the village women construct the Greenwitch: an ancient offering to the sea. Overcome by the Greenwitch's power, Jane makes a perilou ...Show more
Greenwitch (The Dark is Rising #3) by Susan Cooper
Category: Young Adult | Series: Dark Is Rising Sequence (Paperback)
Simon, Jane, and Barney, enlisted by their mysterious great-uncle, arrive in a small coastal town to recover a priceless golden grail stolen by the forces of evil -- Dark. They are not at first aware of the strange powers of another boy brought to help, Will Stanton -- nor of the sinister significance o ...Show more
Haunted: Ghost Stories to Chill Your Blood by Susan Cooper
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Matt Haig, Derek Landy, Philip Reeve, Joseph Delaney, Susan Cooper, Mal Peet, Berlie Doherty, Robin Jarvis, Eleanor Updale, Jamila Gavin and Sam Llewellyn have come together to bring you eleven spine-tingling stories. Watch your step as you take a ghost walk around the ancient city of York and a long-ag ...Show more
Haunted: Ghost stories to chill your blood by Susan Cooper
Category: Young Adult
In this title, Derek Landy, Philip Reeve, Joseph Delaney, Susan Cooper, Eleanor Updale, Jamila Gavin, Mal Peet, Matt Haig, Berlie Doherty, Robin Jarvis and Sam Llewellyn have come together to bring you ten ghost stories: from a ghost walk around York; to a drowned boy, who's determined to find someone t ...Show more
King of Shadows by Susan Cooper
Category: Young Adult
Only in the world of the theater can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life. So he is thrilled when he is chosen to join an American drama troupe traveling to London to perform "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in a new replica of the famous Globe theater. Shortly after ...Show more