The grail has been stolen, and Great-Uncle Merry brings Simon, Jane, and Barney back to Trewissick to recover it. Will and the Drews meet in the third book in the cycle, Greenwitch. Will finds the six Signs, objects of power that the Light will use in the final confrontation to defeat the Dark he also awakens Hern the Hunter to harry the Dark to the ends of the earth. Another Old One, Merriman Lyon, teaches Will the knowledge and skills he needs to win for the Light the next battle of the great war.
Will is turning eleven, and on his birthday he discovers that he is the last-born in the Circle of the Old Ones, servants of the Light.
In the second book in the cycle, The Dark is Rising, we meet another key fighter in this great war, Will Stanton. The Dark and the Light, you see, are ancient enemies, and the Dark has chosen this time in the second half of our century to begin its last great Rising, to defeat the Light and subjugate the human race forever. They are opposed by sinister enemies, but find unexpected help in Great-Uncle Merry, who turns out to be more powerful than they ever knew, an agent of what he calls “the Light.” By finding the grail, they win the first battle in a great war that is beginning all over England between the Dark and the Light. With them are their parents and a mysterious family friend named Merriman Lyon, whom they know simply as “Great-Uncle Merry.” The Drew children’s discovery of a real treasure map takes them on an exciting, frightening quest to discover a grail that has been hidden for over a thousand years. The first book in the cycle, Over Sea, Under Stone, begins with three children, Simon, Jane, and Barnabas Drew, who are on holiday in Trewissick, a sleepy Cornwall village. While I do not value books simply because they win awards, the fact that Cooper’s books have won them tells me that many other people have found them as compelling as I have. Of the five, The Dark is Rising was a Newbery Honor Book, and The Grey King actually won the Newbery Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in children’s literature. The Dark is Rising cycle is composed of five books: Over Sea, Under Stone, The Dark is Rising, Greenwitch, The Grey King, and Silver on the Tree. The story compels me to this day, and I continue to re-read it every few years. They were a door into Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising cycle, one of the most compelling stories I had ever read. It wasn’t that I expected them to make something happen the words were a “happening” in and of themselves, and just saying them put me into the middle of it. When I was a teenager I often repeated these lines to myself as a kind of charm. Three from the circle, three from the track When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back
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