Susan Cooper

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"In this conclusion of a tale begun in "Over Sea, Under Stone," Will Stanton, the Welsh boy Bran, and the Drew Children try to locate the crystal sword that alone can vanquish the strong forces of the Dark."--Provided by publisher.

3) The Boggart and the monster

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In this companion volume to The Boggart, the invisible and mischievous spirit living in the Scottish Castle Keep sets out to help save Nessie the Loch Ness Monster, one of its few remaining cousins.

4) Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising

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Susan Cooper talks with Symphony Space's education director about The Dark Is Rising sequence, her series of five thrilling fantasy novels for young readers, among them The Dark Is Rising and 1976 Newbery Medal winner The Grey King. The heroic series, originally published in the 1960s and 70s, is inspired by Arthurian myths and depicts an epic struggle between good ("The Light") and evil ("The Dark") in which children like 11-year-old Sign-Seeker...

5) Staging dance

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6) The dark is rising

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On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark.

7) The shortest day

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December Holiday Favorites

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A celebration of the winter solstice and the Yuletide season. As the sun set on the shortest day of the year, early people would gather to prepare for the long night ahead. They built fires and lit candles. They played music, bringing their own light to the darkness, while wondering if the sun would ever rise again. Written for a theatrical production that has become a ritual in itself, Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day" captures the magic behind...

8) Greenwitch

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Jane's invitation to witness the making of the Greenwitch begins a series of sinister events in which she and her two brothers help the Old Ones recover the grail stolen by the Dark.

9) Over sea, under stone

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Three children on a holiday in Cornwall find an ancient manuscript which sends them on a dangerous quest for a grail that would reveal the true story of King Arthur.

10) The grey king

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In this fourth book of The Dark Is Rising sequence, Will Stanton, visiting in Wales, is swept into a desperate quest to find the golden harp and to awaken the ancient Sleepers.

11) The boggart

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After visiting the castle in Scotland which her family has inherited and returning home to Canada, twelve-year-old Emily finds that she's accidentally brought back with her a boggart, an invisible and mischievous spirit with a fondness for practical jokes.

12) The word pirates

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When word-eating Captain Rottingbones and his crew steal from the Word Wizard while she is telling a story, her pen proves mightier than the pirates' swords.

13) King of shadows

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While in London as part of an all-boy acting company preparing to perform in a replica of the famous Globe Theatre, Nat Field suddenly finds himself transported back to 1599 and performing in the original theater under the tutelage of Shakespeare himself.

14) The magician's boy

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The boy polishes the Magicians wands and catches the rabbits that the Magician pulls out of his hats. But the boy's favorite job is operation the puppets for the Magicians' famous puppet play, "Saint George and the Dragon, "--Until one terrible day when, in the middle of a performance, the boy can't find the Saint George puppet. The magician is furious. He points a long magical finger at the boy, and -- poof! -- the boy is suddenly in the strange...

15) Frog

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A young boy learns how to swim by watching a small frog that makes its way into the family swimming pool.

16) Victory

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Alternating chapters follow the mysterious connection between a homesick English girl living in present-day America and an eleven-year-old boy serving in the British Royal Navy in 1803, aboard the H.M.S. Victory, commanded by Admiral Horatio Nelson.

17) There was a little girl: an E.J. Pugh mystery

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Cooper, Susan Rogers

18) Rural hours

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Cooper, Susan Fenimore

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Nature and the mid-nineteenth-century American landscape is beautifully revealed in this journal of the seasons. Susan Fenimore Cooper, daughter of the great American novelist, wrote this book in 1850, four years before Walden was published. She described it as her "simple record of those little events which make up the course of the seasons in rural life." --From back cover.

19) Fatal distraction

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Inspired by the Pulitzer Prize-winning article in the Washington Post, FATAL DISTRACTION tells the untold story of the high-profile Georgia murder trial of Justin Ross Harris following the hot car death of his toddler son in 2014.

20) Haunted

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