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.
"An intriguing and truly lovely book."-- "The New York Times Book
Review"
"Cooper ... writes movingly about the beauty of the
Bahamas."--Kirkus Reviews
"Cooper...hints at her virtuoso ability to deepen everyday
occurrence into resonant mythic narrative."-- "The Horn Book"
"Readers are likely to be pulled in by the sensitive portrayals of
Trey and Lous, the mysterious adventures in Pangaia and the
whilrwind climax."-- "Publishers Weekly"
"Real moments of near-tangible peace."-- "The Bulletin of the
Center for Children's Books"
"The lyrical nature writing evokes the fragility and the power of a
spider's silk, the miracle of a seashell, the physical connections
of the wind, water, and sand."-- "Booklist"
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