Series: Book 5 in the The Time Quintet series
Rating: ****
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Lang:en
Summary
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.
"When Polly O'Keefe visits her grandparents in Connecticut,
she finds herself caught up in the lives of three mysterious
strangers [who lived] 3,000 years ago [and] travels back in
time to play a crucial role in an ancient
confrontation...L'Engle has again achieved the award-winning
style of
A Wrinkle in Time. . .Highly recommended." --_VOYA_
From Publishers Weekly
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