# Trying to find a book/series

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 2, 2001, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-a-book-series/56447 "2001-03-02T00:10:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![sirkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@sirkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirkle)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-a-book-series/56447/1 "2001-03-02T00:10:10Z")

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OK, I read this series of books when I was in Junior High, and I really like them, but I can’t remember the AUthor or the Name of the series. They were about this boy who has to gather all these talisman things, and they are in the shape of a circle with a line through it. Anyway, that is the only real detail I can remember. The rest of the series deals with his quests to get them. I know it’s not much, but thought I would ask.

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**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-a-book-series/56447/2 "2001-03-02T00:54:36Z")

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Sounds like The Dark Is Rising, by Susan Cooper.

The books in the series are:  
Over Sea, Under Stone (this one is sort of a prequel)  
The Dark is Rising  
Greenwitch  
The Grey King  
Silver on the Tree

The boy finds all the talismans (talismen??) in The Dark Is Rising, the rest of the series they are questing after other, related signs.

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**Author:** ![Emperor\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@Emperor\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emperor_Penguin)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-a-book-series/56447/3 "2001-03-02T06:23:35Z")

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> \*Originally posted by delphica \*  
> \*\*Sounds like The Dark Is Rising, by Susan Cooper.  
> The Grey King  
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Hey!

I think I read that. It took place at a mountain in Wales didn’t it? Also had a bad guy named Caradog Pritchard (sp?) IIRC.

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**Author:** ![Emperor\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@Emperor\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emperor_Penguin)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-a-book-series/56447/4 "2001-03-02T06:25:46Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by delphica \*  
> **The Grey King**

_Sigh_

That’s what the quote should’ve looked like.

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**Author:** ![sirkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@sirkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirkle)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2001, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-a-book-series/56447/5 "2001-03-04T03:33:50Z")

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Thanks, that was the series I was lookin for. 🙂