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The grey king7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() Bran Davies (the raven boy) is an albino boy with golden eyes, near Will's age.There he meets Bran and their adventures begin. Here he is recovering from hepatitis with physician's orders to remain out of school for at least a month, so his mother sends him to his uncle David Evans in Wales. Will Stanton is a primary character in the series.It also won the annual Newbery Medal recognizing the year's "most distinguished contribution to American children's literature". ![]() It is set in Wales and incorporates Welsh folklore as well as Arthurian material. The Grey King won the inaugural Tir na n-Og Award from the Welsh Books Council as the year's best English-language children's book with an "authentic Welsh background". It is the fourth of five books in her Arthurian fantasy series The Dark is Rising. The Grey King is a contemporary fantasy novel by Susan Cooper, published almost simultaneously by Chatto & Windus and Atheneum in 1975. ![]()
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