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About The Book
There is a Welsh legend about a harp of gold, hidden within a certain hill, that will be found by a boy and a white dog with silver eyes -- a dog that can see the wind. Will Stanton knew nothing of this when he came to Wales to recover from a severe illness. But when he met Bran, a strange boy who owned a white dog, he began to remember. For Will is the last-born of the Old Ones, immortals dedicated to saving the world from the forces of evil, the Dark. And it is Will's task to wake-with the golden harp -- the six who must be roused from their long slumber in the Welsh hills to prepare for the last battle between the Dark and the Light.
About The Author
Photograph © Tsar Fedorsky Photography 2013
Susan Cooper is one of our foremost fantasy authors; her classic five-book fantasy sequence The Dark Is Rising has sold millions of copies worldwide. Her books’ accolades include the Newbery Medal, a Newbery Honor, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and five shortlists for the Carnegie Medal. She combines fantasy with history in Victory (a Washington Post Top Ten Books for Children pick), King of Shadows, Ghost Hawk, and her magical The Boggart and the Monster, second in a trilogy, which won the Scottish Arts Council’s Children’s Book Award. Susan Cooper lives on a saltmarsh island in Massachusetts, and you can visit her online at TheLostLand.com.
Product Details
- Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books (February 15, 2002)
- Length: 224 pages
- ISBN13: 9780689847837
- Grades: 3 - 7
- Ages: 8 - 12
- Lexile ® 930L The Lexile reading levels have been certified by the Lexile developer, MetaMetrics®
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Awards and Honors
- ALA Newbery Medal
- ALA Notable Children's Books
- Horn Book Fanfare
- Agatha Award Finalist
- Carnegie Medal Honor Book
- African Studies Assn Child Bk Awd Honor
- ALA Mildred L. Batchelder Award
- Gateway Readers Award (MO)
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- Author Photo (jpg): Susan Cooper Photograph © Tsar Fedorsky Photography 2013(0.1 MB)
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