Madeleine L'Engle
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
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Description
Young Meg Murry, her brother Charles, and their friend Calvin, embark on a journey through space and time, assisted by three eccentric women, when they set out to find Meg's father, a physicist who disappeared while experimenting with time travel.
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
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Description
With Meg Murry's help, the dragons her six-year-old brother saw in the vegetable garden play an important part in his struggle between life and death.
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
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Description
Fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace Murry and the unicorn Gaudior must travel through time and space in a battle against an evil dictator who would destroy the entire universe. Includes an interview with the author.
5) Many waters
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
The fifteen-year-old Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are accidentally sent back to a strange Biblical time period, in which mythical beasts roam the desert and a man named Noah is building a boat in preparation for a great flood.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Polly's stay with her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious strangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?" is Madeleine L'Engle's spirited defense of the responsibility of children's literature to confront difficult questions, as she did in all her work, particularly her masterpiece A Wrinkle in Time. This eBook contains the text of her famous speech as well as her introduction to the twenty-fifth anniversary of A Wrinkle in Time and a facsimile of a chapter from the original manuscript with Madeleine's notations.
Author
Language
English
Description
Excerpt: "Where are you going, Philippa?" Mrs. Jackman asked sharply as Flip turned away from the group of tourists standing about in the cold hall of the Chateau of Chillon "I'm going for a walk," Flip said Her father put his hand on her shoulder. "I'd rather you stayed with us, Flip." She looked up at him, her eyes bright with pleading. "Please, father!" she whispered. Then she turned and ran out of the chateau, away from the dark, prisoning stones,...
Author
Series
O'Keefe family volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
c1976
Physical Desc
1 v.
Language
English
10) A severed wasp
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
c1982
Physical Desc
384 p.
Language
English
11) Time quartet
Author
Publisher
Science Fiction Book Club
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
646 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
Español
Description
Meg Murry, nuestra protagonista, tiene problemas para adaptarse en la escuela, es difícil adivinar que sus padres son científicos. Papá desapareció tiempo atrás en extrañas circunstancias, pero mamá no ha perdido la esperanza de volver a verlo. Su hermano pequeño, Charles, es un niño prodigio; su mente posee una percepción excepcional que le permite ver más allá de las apariencias. Es esa habilidad la que les permitirá encontrarse con...
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Océano, S.L
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
237 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
With Meg Murry's help, the dragons her six-year-old brother saw in the vegetable garden play an important part in his struggle between life and death.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 285 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This powerful collection of short stories traces an emotional arc inspired by Madeleine L'Engle's early life and career, from her lonely childhood in New York to her life as a mother in small-town Connecticut. In a selection of eighteen stories discovered by one of L'Engle's granddaughters, we see how L'Engle's personal experiences and abiding faith informed the creation of her many cherished works. Some of these stories have never been published;...
19) Troubling a star
Author
Series
Austin family books volume 5
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
296 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As she tries to stay alive after being left on an iceberg in the Antarctic, sixteen-year-old Vicky recalls the series of events that brought her to the bottom of the world and involved her in a dangerous mystery.
Author
Series
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2008, c1963
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1000L
Physical Desc
280 pages : genealogical tables ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The summer camping trip the Austins take when Vicky is fourteen years old is an eventful one, thanks to Zachary and Andy, two completely different boys she meets on the trip.