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Works by
Madeleine L'Engle
(Writer)
[1918 - September
7, 2007] |
Time Quartet
Series of Young Adult novels about time travel.
Ages 9-12
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A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
Meg Murray, her little brother Charles Wallace,
and their mother are having a midnight snack on a dark and stormy
night when an unearthly stranger appears at their door. He claims to
have been blown off course, and goes on to tell them that there is
such a thing as a "tesseract," which, if you didn't know, is a wrinkle
in time.
Meg's father had been experimenting with time-travel when he suddenly
disappeared. Will Meg, Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin outwit
the forces of evil as they search through space for their father?
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A Wind in the Door (1973)
Meg Murry can't help but be worried when her
six-year-old brother, Charles Wallace, announces there are dragons in
the vegetable garden. He's so bright, and so different from other
kids, he's getting bullied at school, and he is also strangely,
seriously ill.
But Charles Wallace is right about the dragons--actually a friendly
entity who has come to help Charles Wallace fight his sickness, and to
take Meg and her friend Calvin O'Keefe on a terrifying, wonderful
journey into galactic space--where they must battle the force of evil
to save Charles Wallace, and themselves.
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A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978)
Meg Murry O'Keefe and her family are just
sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner when her father gets a phone call
from the White House about a madman's threat of nuclear war. Only an
old Irish rune seems to hold a clue to averting worldwide disaster,
and and when Meg's brother Charles Wallace, now fifteen, recites it, a
radiant white beast--the unicorn Gaudior--appears to join him on his
quest. But there are only twenty-four hours in which to stop tragedy
from occurring. Can Charles Wallace, with the help of Gaudior and Meg,
possibly succeed?
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Many Waters (1986)
A touch of computer keys, a blast of heat, and suddenly the Murry
twins, Sandy and Dennys, are gasping in a shimmering desert land. If
only the brothers had normal parents, not a scientist mother and a
father who experiments with space and time travel. If only the Murry
twins had noticed the note on the door of their mother's lab:
Experiment In
Progress. Please Keep Out
But it's too late for regrets. There's a strange-and very
small-person approaching, with a miniature mammoth in tow. . . .
At last it's Sandy and Dennys's turn for an adventure-an adventure
that turns serious when they discover that "many waters" are coming to
flood the desert. The twins must find a way back home soon, or they
will drown. But how will they get back to their own time? Can they?
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Lines Scribbled on an Envelope, and Other Poems (1969)
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The Weather of the Heart (1978)
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A Cry Like a Bell (1987)
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The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle (2005)
For the first time, nearly 200 of Madeleine's original
poems, including eighteen that have never been published before, are
collected in one volume. Reflecting on themes of love, faith, and
beauty, The Ordering of Love weaves intangible experiences like grief
and joy with the visible events of life, from hospital rooms to bus
rides, giving harmony and voice to the complex realities of life. Now
available at your favorite local bookstore (and online, of course).
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