5/22/2023 0 Comments The dark is rising book![]() ![]() Though Cooper distinguishes these powers from magic or witchcraft - which, when it’s actually genuine, is a tool of the Dark - she does not go as far as to explain where the magic of the Light comes from. Meanwhile a red-haired, blue-eyed Rider in Black menaces Will and his family at every turn… a strange, tormented Walker is abroad… the powerful Book of Gramarye waits… and Will discovers the ability to travel through time, plus other exciting powers. “Uncle Merry” from the first book returns as an Old One named Merriman Lyon, who (among others) helps Will find the signs of iron, bronze, wood, stone, fire, and water that he needs to hold back the Dark. Helped by a handful of other Old Ones, and hindered by betrayal and outright attack from the powers of darkness, Will must find six magical signs and unite them together before Twelfth Night, when the Dark will wage its last and greatest attack on the world. Weird things begin happening on the eve of his birthday, but just as Will is learning of his true destiny, the Dark begins to rise in earnest during the Twelve Days of Christmas. ![]() The youngest child in a large family, he has little idea that he is also the last-born of the immortal Old Ones, who lead the forces of the Light in their age-long fight against the Dark. ![]() On Midwinter’s day, Buckinghamshire lad Will Stanton turns eleven years old. This 1973 Newbery Honor Book is the second book in the sequence of the same name, which began with 1965’s Over Sea, Under Stone. ![]()
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