Many Waters
Books | Juvenile Fiction / Science Fiction / Time Travel
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Madeleine L'Engle
In A Wrinkle in Time Quintet book two, Meg Murry, now in college, time travels with her twin brothers, Sandy and Dennys, to a desert oasis that is embroiled in war.Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has happened to the twins until they accidentally interrupt their father's experiment.Then the two boys are thrown across time and space. They find themselves alone in the desert, where, if they believe in unicorns, they can find unicorns, and whether they believe or not, mammoths and manticores will find them.The twins are rescued by Japheth, a man from the nearby oasis, but before he can bring them to safety, Dennys gets lost. Each boy is quickly embroiled in the conflicts of this time and place, whose populations includes winged seraphim, a few stray mythic beasts, perilous and beautiful nephilim, and small, long lived humans who consider Sandy and Dennys giants. The boys find they have more to do in the oasis than simply getting themselves home--they have to reunite an estranged father and son, but it won't be easy, especially when the son is named Noah and he's about to start building a boat in the desert.Books by Madeleine L'EngleA Wrinkle in Time QuintetA Wrinkle in TimeA Wind in the DoorA Swiftly Tilting PlanetMany WatersAn Acceptable TimeA Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeleine L'Engle; adapted & illustrated by Hope LarsonIntergalactic P.S. 3 by Madeleine L'Engle; illustrated by Hope Larson: A standalone story set in the world of A Wrinkle in Time.The Austin Family ChroniclesMeet the Austins (Volume 1) The Moon by Night (Volume 2) The Young Unicorns (Volume 3)A Ring of Endless Light (Volume 4) A Newbery Honor book!Troubling a Star (Volume 5)The Polly O'Keefe booksThe Arm of the StarfishDragons in the WatersA House Like a LotusAnd Both Were YoungCamillaThe Joys of Love
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Author
Madeleine L'Engle
Pages
320
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Published Date
2010-04-01
ISBN
1429994363 9781429994361
Ratings
Google: 4
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"Getting to know the twins and Noah’s family was very exciting! I thought it was very cool incorporating elements where it’s been discovered people were much shorter in the past and lived longer and it was certainly nice to see all the seraphim. Definitely a must-read!"
Kendell Lyssy
"Favorite book in the series! About twins who get zapped to the time of Noah, just before the flood"
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Kat
"I don't know if I have a specific favorite part, but I really appreciated the character work. The twins sense of being outsiders in their family by virtue of fitting in outside of it, the reliance and the tension that comes with knowing someone very very well, the questions of identity, and who they were in relation to each other and the world around them. I loved all of that stuff."
HG
"I love how she takes Genesis and the Book of Enoch and weaves a new narrative with the flood story. So interesting!"
J R
Jane Rehbine
"5/10"
Lil-Farrah
"Her best book"
Cherokee Reynolds
"I just really could not get into this book. After reading book three, and really getting into it, after being disappointed with book 2, I had such high hopes for this one.<br/>But if I wanted to read the Bible, I would read the Bible. I don't care much for biblical or religious fiction, and couldn't make an exception for this book, either. I do have to say, I'm happy to be finally done with this series. I never cared much for Sandy and Dennys (or Charles Wallace, for that matter). Knowing that this book was targeted at children, I felt like the content was somewhat inappropriate.<br/>I guess life is just too short to spend time reading books I don't enjoy!"
Amanda Wampler
