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(0)Madeleine L'Engle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
It was a dark and stormy night Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. "Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract."...
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of the classic tale in which Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In this volume, fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. They are not alone in their quest. Charles Wallace's sister, Meg, grown and expecting her first child, but still able to enter her brother's thoughts and emotions by "kything", goes with him in spirit. Charles Wallace must face the ultimate...
5) Many waters
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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
Time quintet volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Polly's visit to her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious stangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seven-year-old Vicky Austin recounts the events of the twenty-four days before Christmas, as she prepares for her role as an angel in the Christmas Pageant and prays that her mother will not be in the hospital for Christmas having a new baby.
Author
Series
Austin family books volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
During the summer her grandfather is dying of leukemia and death seems all around, 15-year-old Vicky finds comfort with the pod of dolphins with whom she has been doing research.
Author
Series
Austin family books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The life of the Austin family is changed by the arrival of self-centered young Maggy Hamilton, orphaned by the sudden death of her pilot father.
Author
Series
Austin family books volume 2
Language
English
Description
Book two in the award-winning young adult Austin Family Chronicles series from Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time, Vicky Austin experiences the difficulties and joys of growing up.
As if simply being fourteen-years-old weren't bad enough—what with the usual teenage angst and uncertainty, Vicky Austin's always comforting and reliable home life is changing completely. Her brother John is going off to college in the fall.
11) Troubling a star
Author
Series
Austin family books volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"The Austins are trying to settle into their new life in New York City, but their once close-knit family is pulling away from each other. Their father spends long hours alone in his study working on the research project that brought the family to the city. John is away at college. Rob is making friends with people in the neighborhood: newspaper vendors, dog walkers, even the local rabbi. Suzy is blossoming into a vivacious young woman. And Vicky has...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
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;...
14) The joys of love
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
After graduating from college in 1941, Elizabeth Jerrold pursues her dream of becoming a stage actress, landing a position as an apprentice in a summer theater company where she hones her acting skills and falls in love with an aspiring director.
15) Camilla
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1950s' New York City, fifteen-year-old Camilla gains new maturity through her relationship with her best friend's brother and the growing realization that her parents are fallible individuals.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this novel by A Wrinkle in Time author Madeleine L'Engle, Philippa is miserable at an all girls' boarding school in Switzerland . . . until she meets the mysterious Paul.
Flip feels miserable when she first arrives at boarding school in Switzerland. Then she finds a true friend in Paul. But as the two become more and more close, Flip learns that Paul has a mystery in his past—and to help him discover the truth, she must
17) The other dog
Author
Series
Publisher
SeaStar Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[37] pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
The family poodle protests at first when the master and mistress bring home a new "dog" to share the household.