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Susan Cooper

Susan Cooper is the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement. Her classic five-book fantasy sequence The Dark Is Rising won the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor and has sold millions of copies worldwide. She is also the author of Victory, a Booklist Top Ten Historical Fiction for Youth book and a Washington Post Top Ten for Children novel; King of Shadows, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor book; The Boggart; Seaward; and many other acclaimed novels for young readers. She lives in Massachusetts, and you can visit her online at TheLostLand.com.

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Over Sea, Under Stone will be released on June 11, 2013 in Hardcover
May 23, 2013
The Dark Is Rising Sequence will be released on June 11, 2013 in Hardcover, Trade Paperback
May 23, 2013
Victory will be released on August 27, 2013 in Hardcover, Trade Paperback
May 23, 2013
Ghost Hawk will be released on August 27, 2013 in Hardcover, Compact Disk, Audio Download, eBook
May 17, 2013
Green Boy will be released on August 27, 2013 in Hardcover, Trade Paperback
May 14, 2013
Seaward will be released on August 27, 2013 in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook
May 14, 2013
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Excerpt 1 from Green Boy
Apr 27, 2013
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Excerpt 1 from Green Boy
Mar 28, 2013
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The Dark Is Rising Sequence
Mar 06, 2013
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Excerpt 1 from The Magician's Boy
Nov 27, 2012
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Text Excerpt 1 from Seaward
Nov 03, 2012
The Dark Is Rising: The Complete Sequence is now available in eBook
Sep 04, 2012
The Dark Is Rising: The Complete Sequence will be released on September 04, 2012 in eBook
Sep 04, 2012
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from Green Boy
Jul 24, 2012
Victory is now available in eBook
Mar 06, 2012
Victory will be released on March 06, 2012 in eBook
Mar 06, 2012

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Huffington Post UK, April 16, 2013
...the Black Cauldron series when I was a kid, which was all about that. And then I read Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising series. That series made me the writer I am now because she was the first writer I read who took mythology and put it...
Huffington Post, April 14, 2013
...Applegate, Rick Atkinson, Paolo Bacigalupi, Nicholson Baker, Bonnie Benwick, A. Scott Berg, Holly Black, Monica Brown, Steve Coll, Susan Cooper, Justin Cronin, Matt de la Peña, Katherine Erskine, Richard Paul Evans, Brian Floca, Eric Gansworth, Albert...
Californian, April 11, 2013
...how-to articles, personal narratives, advice and folklore. Foxfire is an elegant and entertaining play created in 1982 by Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn, based on the above books. It proved an enthralling vehicle for Cronyn and his wife, Jessica Tandy....
The Independent, April 5, 2013
...and perfect for any growing child who might be feeling a little ‘different’. Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper The Folio Society, £24.95 The Folio Society creates beautiful editions of classic reads, including this, the first in the Dark is...
ALA, April 5, 2013
...other prizes. Each finalist from grades 5-6 will be provided a copy of "Over Sea, Under Stone" by Susan Cooper. Each finalist from grades 7-8 will be provided a copy of Chronicles of "Harris Burdick" by Chris Van Allsburg, and each finalist from grades...
PublishersWeekly.com, March 4, 2013
...of the Pies by Judi Barrett, illus. by Isidre Mones (S&S/Atheneum, $17.99; ISBN 978-1-4424-9027-7). Ghost Hawk by Susan Cooper (S&S/Atheneum, $16.99; ISBN 978-1-4424-8141-1). 100,000 copies. Just for Now by Abbi Glines (Simon Pulse, $9.99 paper; ISBN...
USA Today, February 26, 2013
...Authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl talk about bringing their young-adult book to the big screen. Movie tie-in book jacket for Beautiful Creatures is the biggest YA adaptation since The Hunger Games. Fueled by a love story between small-town boy...
Manila Bulletin, January 18, 2013
...modernization of shipping terminals, said Texas A&Ms Kruse. They just have to become more efficient. (Additional reporting by Susan Cooper Eastman in Jacksonville, Florida, Alwyn Scott and Sharon Begley in New York, David Adams and Kevin Gray in Miami,...
The Other Paper, January 17, 2013
...Bastard—all this crazy stuff that I thought I could never find anywhere. It was just there.†Susan Cooper, who works at Bourbon Street every Sunday during the Dreadful Sounds Metal Night, chimed in. “The people that listen to heavy...
FOXBusiness.com, January 17, 2013
...terminals," said Texas A&M's Kruse. "They just have to become more efficient." (Additional reporting by Susan Cooper Eastman in Jacksonville, Florida, Alwyn Scott and Sharon Begley in New York, David Adams and Kevin Gray in Miami, and Harriet McLeod in...
Yahoo! Singapore, January 17, 2013
...terminals," said Texas A&M's Kruse. "They just have to become more efficient." (Additional reporting by Susan Cooper Eastman in Jacksonville, Florida, Alwyn Scott and Sharon Begley in New York, David Adams and Kevin Gray in Miami, and Harriet McLeod in...
Yahoo! Finance, January 17, 2013
...terminals," said Texas A&M's Kruse. "They just have to become more efficient." (Additional reporting by Susan Cooper Eastman in Jacksonville, Florida, Alwyn Scott and Sharon Begley in New York, David Adams and Kevin Gray in Miami, and Harriet McLeod in...
CentralMOinfo.com, January 17, 2013
...terminals," said Texas A&M's Kruse. "They just have to become more efficient." (Additional reporting by Susan Cooper Eastman in Jacksonville, Florida, Alwyn Scott and Sharon Begley in New York, David Adams and Kevin Gray in Miami, and Harriet McLeod in...
Yahoo! Canada, January 17, 2013
...terminals," said Texas A&M's Kruse. "They just have to become more efficient." (Additional reporting by Susan Cooper Eastman in Jacksonville, Florida, Alwyn Scott and Sharon Begley in New York, David Adams and Kevin Gray in Miami, and Harriet McLeod in...