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Why has a time gate opened and dropped Polly into a world that existed 3,000 years ago? Will she be able to get back to the present before the time gate closes — and leaves her to face a group of people who believe in human sacrifice?
This Commemorative Edition includes a new introduction by the Author.
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November 11, 2008 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780739372043
- File size: 279348 KB
- Duration: 09:41:58
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- English
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- ATOS Level: 4.5
- Lexile® Measure: 710
- Interest Level: 6-12(MG+)
- Text Difficulty: 3
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Publisher's Weekly
October 1, 1989
For this time-slip novel, L'Engle again reaches into her bag of weird and wonderful knowledge, blending snippets of tantalizing information from a variety of disciplines--history, natural history, physics and Christian metaphysics, to name a few--into a rich and heady brew. Red-haired Polly O'Keefe (last seen in A House Like a Lotus ) arrives at her grandparents' farm in Connecticut for some private tutoring. There, in a landscape familiar to L'Engle fans (who will be pleased to know that the Nobel Prize-winning Mrs. Murry still cooks over a Bunsen burner), Polly slips back 3000 years into a different time ``spiral.'' She meets Anaral, a Native American girl; Karralys, a druid banished from Britain for his progressive thinking; and Tav, a handsome warrior who accompanied the druid to their new land. Polly travels back and forth between the two worlds, and eventually her purpose becomes clear: with the aid of her new friends she forges peace between two clashing tribes, and helps Zachary Gray (also from A House Like a Lotus ), a self-centered but very ill young man. The story is laced together with L'Engle's now-familiar theme of the transcendent importance of love. This fine fantasy, firmly rooted in reality, is the kind of thoughtful story at which L'Engle excels. Ages 12-up. -
AudioFile Magazine
The fifth and final entry in L'Engle's WRINKLE IN TIME series gets a quiet reading from Ann Marie Lee. But this meshes well with the story's almost-scientific tone. Teen Polly O'Keefe is visiting her Nobel Prize-winning grandmother in Connecticut when she stumbles through a "tesseract" (wrinkle in time) and ends up 3,000 years in the past. Lee reads with sincerity and brings a sense of authority to the book's complex ideas. The Wrinkle series began in 1962 with a Newbery Award winner, but this last entry, written in 1989, doesn't rise to the same level. Despite numerous warnings, Polly seems unconcerned about being used as a blood sacrifice. The O'Keefes and Murrys are a couple of time-traveling families, so it's hard to believe Polly is such a babe in the woods. M.M.C. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine -
Publisher's Weekly
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Formats
- OverDrive Listen audiobook
Languages
- English
Levels
- ATOS Level:4.5
- Lexile® Measure:710
- Interest Level:6-12(MG+)
- Text Difficulty:3
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