The Dark Is Rising Av Susan Cooper

<p><i>This night will be bad and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.<br><br></i>It''s Midwinter''s Eve, the day before Will''s eleventh birthday. But there is an atmosphere of fear in the familiar countryside around him. This will be a birthday like no other. Will discovers that he has the power of the Old Ones, and that he must embark on a quest to vanquish the terrifyingly evil magic of the Dark.<br><br>The second novel in Susan Cooper''s highly acclaimed <i>Dark is Rising </i>sequence.</p>