Really important! Please help with these terms and what I should do! 10 Points for best?

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Okay. So I'm reading one of two books for summer reading. My second one is confusing for many reasons. - Not the book, but the terms of the book. -

It is: The Dark is Rising (Sequence).

My first question is - what is a sequence? I know what a sequel and a series is, but what's a sequence? I picked this book up at the local bookstore in the "9th grade summer reading". I saw it on the typed list of books, so I picked up the one I found in the 9th grade section. But after looking it up on Wikipedia, I realized that I had picked up the second book (not the first) to the "sequence". I doubt that this is an issue because it was in the section that had all the 9th grade required reading materials in it. Plus, it seems to be on of those books that have different characters and a different plot and stuff (like Lord of the Rings: recurring characters, different setting etc.)

PLEASE HELP!

Thanks!

Answer 1

In other words, it's essentially the same as a series.

Answer 2

'Sequence' :

1. the following of one thing after another; succession.  

2. order of succession: a list of books in alphabetical sequence.  

3. a continuous or connected series: a sonnet sequence.  

4. something that follows; a subsequent event; result; consequence.  

5. Music. a melodic or harmonic pattern repeated three or more times at different pitches with or without modulation.  

6. Liturgy. a hymn sometimes sung after the gradual and before the gospel; prose.  

7. Movies. a series of related scenes or shots, as those taking place in one locale or at one time, that make up one episode of the film narrative.  

8. Cards. a series of three or more cards following one another in order of value, esp. of the same suit.  

9. Genetics. the linear order of monomers in a polymer, as nucleotides in DNA or amino acids in a protein.  

10. Mathematics. a set whose elements have an order similar to that of the positive integers; a map from the positive integers to a given set.  

Random House Unabridged Dictionary : http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/s...

""The Dark Is Rising" is the name of a five-book series of children's novels by Susan Cooper originally published in the 1960s and 1970s."

""The Dark Is Rising" is also the title of the second book in the series"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Is...