Susan Cooper Books in Order

A band of greedy pirates sails the seas gobbling words straight off the pages of books, leaving stories full of holes. When they target a storytelling Word Wizard and the children she reads to, pens and imagination become the crew’s most unexpected match.

Based on Susan Cooper’s classic poem, this picture book follows people from ancient times to the present as they mark the winter solstice with fires, candles, music, and hope that the sun, and the new year’s light, will return.

When twins Allie and Jay visit their grandfather’s shop on a quiet Scottish loch, a ruthless developer moves in to build a luxury resort. To save the water and its wildlife, the children enlist the shape shifting Boggart, Nessie, and other wild magic.

Little Hawk, a Pokanoket boy in seventeenth century New England, must survive a winter alone to become a man, only to see his world shattered by disease and settlers. Years later, English apprentice John Wakely forms a life changing bond with Little Hawk’s restless spirit.

This biography traces the life of musician and teacher John Langstaff, from choirboy and wartime soldier to recording artist and creator of the Christmas Revels. Cooper shows how his love of song, ritual, and community grew into a beloved seasonal tradition.

In 1805, farm boy Sam Robbins is press ganged onto Nelson’s flagship HMS Victory, facing brutal discipline and the Battle of Trafalgar. Two centuries later, homesick Molly Jennings moves from London to America and discovers her own link to Sam through a fragment of history.

The Magician’s unnamed Boy longs to learn real magic, but is kept busy polishing wands and working the Saint George puppet in his master’s show. When the puppet vanishes, the furious Magician sends him into the Land of Story to find it, meeting nursery rhyme legends along the way.

On a Bahamian island, twelve year old Trey looks after his silent younger brother Lou, who has seizures and never speaks. When the boys slip into a polluted future world called Pangaia, Lou is hailed as a prophesied savior and Trey must help him save both worlds.

Little Joe hates that everyone in his family swims easily while he clings to the pool’s edge. When a real frog tumbles into the water and struggles to escape, Joe’s careful rescue shows him a new way to move and the confidence to try again.

Nat Field, a young American actor grieving his parents’ deaths, travels to London to perform at the rebuilt Globe. After falling ill, he wakes in 1599, acting alongside Shakespeare himself and discovering a healing friendship he may have to give up to return home.

Emily and Jess Volnik return to their beloved Scottish Castle Keep and reunite with the mischievous Boggart. A camping trip to Loch Ness reveals that Nessie is the Boggart’s trapped cousin, and modern scientists are closing in, so the children and spirits must stage a rescue.

This collection gathers Susan Cooper’s talks and essays on writing for children, from her Newbery speech to reflections on fantasy, childhood reading, and the places that shaped her stories. It offers a thoughtful behind the scenes look at how her books came to be.

When the Canadian Volnik family inherits a crumbling Scottish castle, they also inherit its resident boggart, an ancient spirit of mischief. After he is accidentally shipped to Toronto inside an old desk, his pranks with phones, computers, and traffic lights spin out of control.

Danny lives with his mother and little brother in a roadside trailer, where money stretches to gifts but not a Christmas tree. After his small, borrowed tree is destroyed, three kindly truck drivers step in like modern wise men to bring unexpected joy.

In this retelling of the Scottish ballad, headstrong princess Margaret rides into the forbidden forest of Carterhaugh and falls in love with Tam Lin, a knight claimed by the Elfin Queen. On Halloween night she must hold him through terrifying transformations to win his freedom.

One night a golden scaled dragon steps from Matthew’s bedtime book and invites him on an adventure. Shrunk to the dragon’s size, then swept into the sky, Matthew faces hungry cats and a gathering of every dragon ever imagined before returning safely to bed.

Donallan, a lonely crofter, steals the sealskin of a beautiful selkie maiden so she will stay on land as his wife. Years pass and children are born, but when the youngest daughter discovers the hidden skin, the selkie must decide between sea home and human family.

In the Welsh hills, boy Huw plays his harp beside Bearded Lake and charms the hidden Tylwyth Teg, the fairy folk. They send a shining silver cow to his father’s herd, bringing marvelous milk and wealth until greed tests the fragile gift.

West and Cally, two teenagers torn from their separate grieving families, find themselves in a strange, shifting landscape where time works differently and danger hides behind every hill. Drawn toward the distant sea, they journey together through deserts, towers, and snowfields to understand loss and love.

On a Caribbean island, eight year old Jethro storms off after his older brother breaks a promise to take him fishing. Walking the dreaded jumbie trail, he meets a glowing spirit who depends on being believed in and ends up helping Jethro mend the quarrel.

In the final volume of The Dark Is Rising sequence, Will Stanton, Bran Davies, and the three Drew children unite as the Six of prophecy. Their quest for a crystal sword carries them through Welsh valleys, drowned kingdoms, and the timeless Lost Land toward a last showdown with the Dark.

Recovering from illness in the Welsh mountains, Will Stanton meets Bran, an isolated boy with white hair and golden eyes who is more than he seems. Guided by riddling prophecy, they must find a golden harp and awaken ancient Sleepers before the Grey King’s fog closes in.

Back in the Cornish village of Trewissick, the Drew children and Will Stanton search for the stolen grail. While the boys chase clues, Jane alone attends the secret women’s Greenwitch ritual, where a single compassionate wish changes the balance between Light and Dark.

On the eve of his eleventh birthday, quiet farm boy Will Stanton discovers he is the last of the Old Ones, guardians of the Light. Over twelve haunted winter days he must gather six ancient Signs before the rising Dark overwhelms his English village.

In the suburbs outside London during World War Two, Derek and his friends treat air raids as noisy background to their games. Time off from school lets them build a secret camp, until a rival gang’s attack and a night of heavy bombing bring the war painfully close.

In a near future 1980, England has sealed itself off under charismatic Prime Minister Mandrake, forcing citizens back to their birthplaces and crushing travel. Anthropologist David Queston, a lifelong wanderer, discovers the disturbing truth behind this policy and the natural disasters shaking the country.

On holiday in a grey house above the Cornish harbor of Trewissick, siblings Simon, Jane, and Barney Drew discover an ancient map hidden in the attic. It leads them into a perilous search for a grail linked to King Arthur, hunted by servants of the Dark.