Madeleine LEngle Kairos/Chronos Fiction

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A boxed set of five volumes featuring the Murray children and their friends as they travel through time and encounter strange creatures. ...

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Vicky Austin's "difficult year" brings mixed emotions of friendship and love. ...

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In A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle, a companion to the Newbery Award winner A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door, 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 test of his faith and his will as he is sent within four people from another time, there to search for a way to avert the tragedy threatening them all. ...

The Austin's should symphathize with Maggie for being an orphan. Even though she's making life so difficult. ...

A plot to rule New York City places the Austin family in terrifying danger. ...

Sixteen-year-old Polly O'Keefe travels to Cyprus with Max, a rich, brilliant artist. ...

For her birthday, Vicky receives the gift of a trip to the Antarctic, where her friend Adam Eddington is working as a marine biologist. But as Vicky meets her fellow travelers, it quickly becomes clear that some of them are not what they seem. Vicki's trip into adventure becomes a journey into icy danger. ...