Over Sea, Under Stone
by:
Susan Cooper (author)
On holiday in Cornwall, the three Drew children discover an ancient map in the attic of the house that they are staying in. They know immediately that it is special. It is even more than that -- the key to finding a grail, a source of power to fight the forces of evil known as the Dark. And in...
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On holiday in Cornwall, the three Drew children discover an ancient map in the attic of the house that they are staying in. They know immediately that it is special. It is even more than that -- the key to finding a grail, a source of power to fight the forces of evil known as the Dark. And in searching for it themselves, the Drews put their very lives in peril.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780020427858 (0020427859)
Publish date: 1989
Publisher: Simon Schuster
Pages no: 243
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Juvenile,
Middle Grade,
Young Adult Fantasy,
Mythology,
Arthurian
Series: Dark is Rising -5 (#1)
bookshelves: fantasy, fraudio, adventure, britain-england, mystery-thriller, play-dramatisation Read in November, 2009 Dramatised in 4 parts by David Calcuttwith Ronald Pickup, Naomi Kerbel and Ben GutteridgeBroadcast 20th Aug to 10th Sep 1995, Children's BBC Radio 4Blurb - When the age old lege...
Back in middle school, when I was discovering fantasy books and reading through my school library, one of the very first series that I found and devoured was Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising sequence. The library initially only had the first two or three books, but over the course of my time there,...
This has never been my favorite of the series, and still isn't. There's nothing wrong with it, it just doesn't grab me as much of the others. When I first read the series, I actually read it last. And, frankly, didn't feel like that was a problem. Still, it was worth the read for the sake of fuller ...
I read this years ago and remembered it to be the least exciting of the Dark is Rising series. The audiobook reading of it was fine, but it was a little boring - though that may have been because I remembered the story (which is more than I can say for many books I've read!).
I read the first half of OSUS thinking it was a prequel, and I think that may have influenced my opinion of the book. I kept waiting for the action to start, when in reality it had been going on for quite awhile already. So far I'm not too impressed by this 'highly acclaimed series', but it's not ba...
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