The Newbery Award-winning author of the classic Dark Is Rising series, Susan Cooper is also the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement. In Ghost Hawk, 11-year-old Little Hawk takes his first steps toward manhood by traveling deep into the forest for a three-month rite of passage. But even as the boy struggles to survive his lonely quest, English settlers land in the New World—and the winds of change threaten to alter Little Hawk's home forever.