- Fantasy, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Large type books
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.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Susan Cooper
- First published
- June 1, 1985
- Pages
- 148
- Publisher
- Red Fox, Bodley Head, Chatto & Windus
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- Swedish, German, und, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781850899341
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“Several Celtic works of art were stolen from the British Museum yesterday, one of them worth more than 50,000.”
Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is an English author of children's books. She is best known for The Dark Is Rising, a contemporary fantasy series set in England and Wales, which incorporates British mythology, such as the Arthurian legends, and Welsh folk heroes. For that work, in 2012 she won the lifetime Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association, recognizing her contribution to writing for teens. In the 1970s two of the five novels were named the year's best English-language book with an "authentic Welsh background" by the Welsh Books Council. [Wikipedia]
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