A boy discovers his magical destiny and sets off on a vital mission to
defeat the Dark in the Newbery Honor-winning second installment of Susan
Cooper's epic The Dark Is Rising Sequence, now with a brand-new look!
The day before Will Stanton's eleventh birthday, he notices strange
omens on his family farm: a cryptic gift, a terrifying flock of birds,
and a deep, cold fear that emerges from the darkness. When he wakes on
his birthday--also Midwinter Day--Will has the life-changing revelation
that he is the last of the Old Ones, immortals who fight to keep the
powers of evil, the Dark, from taking over the world.
Will gets immediately swept away by his new destiny as he sets off in
search of six magical Signs that will one day aid the Old Ones in the
final battle between the Light and the Dark. But the Dark has dispatched
its own agent in pursuit: the rider--evil cloaked in black, mounted on a
midnight stallion. As evil looms ever closer, Will must find the Signs
of wood, bronze, iron, water, fire, and stone before the Dark begins its
dreadful rise.