Book
The Dark Is Rising
by Susan Cooper
- Published
- 1973
- Genre
- Fiction
- Words
- 82143
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 6.2
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 920L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 9–14
On his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton learns that he is the last of the Old Ones and must gather six magical Signs while the forces of the Dark rise around his English village during Christmas.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780689829833
Tags
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