num_pages: 267
description: This night will be bad and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.It's Midwinter's Eve, the day before Will's eleventh birthday. But there is an atmosphere of fear in the familiar countryside around him. This will be a birthday like no other. Will discovers that he has the power of the Old Ones, and that he must embark on a quest to vanquish the terrifyingly evil magic of the Dark.The second novel in Susan Cooper's highly acclaimed Dark is Rising sequence.
language: English
title: The Dark Is Rising
titlecomplete: The Dark Is Rising
characters: Merry Lyon, Will Stanton
genres: Fiction, Magic, Adventure, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Classics, Childrens, Fantasy, Arthurian, Audiobook
ratings_count: 54918
series: The Dark Is Rising
awards: awardedAt: 126259200000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 126259200000
name: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, awardedAt: 94723200000
name: Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1325404800000
name: Margaret A. Edwards Award
publisher: Puffin