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Violence
Some
Fantasy battles and the Dark's forces create genuine threat; some characters die across the sequence
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate: the cosmic stakes of the Light vs
What this book is about
Susan Cooper's five-book sequence — Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark Is Rising; Greenwitch; The Grey King; and Silver on the Tree — follows the Drew children and Will Stanton, the last of the Old Ones, as the forces of Light and Dark move toward their final confrontation. One of the great works of British children's fantasy, richly grounded in Arthurian legend, Celtic mythology, and a profound sense of the ancient dark beneath the English landscape.
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