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Madeleine L'Engle
Includes a new introduction by Ava Duvernay and color photographs from the Disney film adaptation.
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A woman must look after her mother’s son when the mother is killed. The child is the product of an extramarital affair, something no one tells him and complications arise…
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When Charles Wallace Murry goes searching through a ‘wrinkle in time’ for his lost father, he finds himself on an evil planet where all life is enslaved by a huge…
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Donald R. Hettinga
Profiles author Madeleine LEngle, best known for her Newbery Award–winnning A Wrinkle In Time and other fantasy novels.
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Presents the first collection of interviews with the beloved children’s book author best known for her 1962 Newbery Award-winning novel, A Wrinkle in Time. The thirteen interviews collected here reveal…
Heidi A. Lawrence
Using a critical lens derived from ecopsychology and its praxis, ecotherapy, this book explores the relationships Madeleine L'Engle develops for her characters in a selection of the novels.
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An empowering message inspired by a beloved quote from Madeleine L'Engle's enduring classic A Wrinkle in Time.
"Stay angry, little Meg," Mrs. Whatsit whispered. "You will need all your anger…
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Rodney Mooney
I have discovered new evidence in the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi that reveals L'Engle’s defense of the imagination is in fact an important…
Now in paperback! The bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle presents a captivating memoir of the creative life, offering personal stories, meditations, and reflections on God and…
This book was originally published in slightly different form in 1949 by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. –T.p. verso.
Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1982.
Anyone who has dealt with, or will soon deal with, the death of a parent will find some solace, understanding, and companionship in this perceptive book, which is, in the…
Madeleine L'Engle reveals what life was like during her forty-year marriage to actor Hugh Franklin. She details their lean years when she was a fledgling writer and he a struggling…
No podria ser mayor su sorpresa al descubrir en carne propia las fuerzas misticas que rodean el terreno en que se erige la antigua granja de los abuelos. Polly pronto…
Discover stories that inspire a great capacity for wonder (New York Times) from the beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time: named one of the spring’s most anticipated books (Good…
Philippa is miserable at an all girls’ boarding school in Switzerland until she forms a supportive friendship with the mysterious Paul.
El Quinteto del Tiempo es una fastuosa serie de cinco libros que inicio con Una arruga en el tiempo, una novela traducida a mas de treinta idiomas, con mas de…
This novel, one of the earliest works by the beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time, is the story of a girl who, with the help of her first love…
Past and present collide in this heartfelt novel of love and loss from the National Book Award-winning author of A Wrinkle in Time.
After the tragic death of her son…
An unusual and beautiful book, the first novel by the bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time explores the life of a young artist (Los Angeles Times).
At only ten…
Young Yehoshuah demonstrates that he is a special child, destined for greatness.
Originally published: Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1957.
Originally published in 1992 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
From the National Book Award-winning author of A Wrinkle in Time, an atmospheric novel of a young British bride in the American South after the Civil War.
When nineteen-year-old Stella…
The winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal, L'Engle’s beloved novel heads to the big screen in March 2018 with an adaptation from Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Ava DuVernay (who…
With customary grace and firm control of an intricate plot, L'Engle has created another irresistible novel about familiar characters, the Austin family. Vicky, 16, narrates the climactic events with Grandfather…
Long out of print, the second novel by the bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time looks at the darker side of love in a Southern town.
From the moment…
Fifty years ago, L'Engle introduced the world to A Wrinkle in Time. This special edition has been redesigned and includes an Introduction by Katherine Paterson, an Afterword by Madeleine L'Engle’s…
Established in 1968, the Wheaton Literary Series provides insightful books for the thoughtful reader, inspiring imagination, and reflection. These beautifully produced volumes feature prose and poetry of high literary, academic…
The chief characters of…A Wrinkle in Time return in a complex sci-fi/fantasy adventure…Meg and Calvin O'Keefe are enlisted again to fight evil, this time in the shape of the Echthroi…
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language.
With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and…
A midnight visitor escorts Meg, Calvin, and Charles across the barriers of space and time to another world.
The world already knows Meg and Charles Wallace Murry, Calvin O'Keefe, and the three MrsNWho, Whatsit, and WhichNthe memorable and wonderful characters who fight off a dark force and save…
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. Spanish language edition.
Meg’s father mysteriously disappears after experimenting with the fifth dimension of time travel. Determined to rescue him, Meg and her friends must outwit the forces of evil on a heart-stopping…
Meg Murry can’t help but be worried when her six-year-old brother, Charles Wallace, announces there are dragons in the vegetable garden in this companion to LUEngle’s 1963 Newbery Medal-winning novel…
Charles, the youngest of the Murry children must travel through time and space in a battle against an evil dictator who would destroy the entire universe in this classic tale…
The 15-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…
In this classic novel by a beloved author, Polly OUKeefe’s visit to her grandparents’ farm in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious strangers and…
Now redesigned and repackaged with new cover art by Taeeun Yoo, these editions in L'Engle’s classic middle-grade series each features a new Introduction by the author’s granddaughter, Charlotte Jones Voiklis.
The Austin family spends the summer on a cross-country camping trip…Vicky, now ‘almost 15, ’ tells the story, and the reader feels a strong personal identification with the thoughts and…
Book three of the Austin Family Chronicles, an award-winning young adult series from Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time, about a girl who experiences the difficulties and joys…
Vicky Austin, the poetry-writing heroine of four of the Newbery Medalist’s previous novels, finds herself caught in a web of political intrigue in this exotic, multilayered thriller. This is a…
The conclusion to the Polly O'Keefe stories that began with The Arm of the Starfish and Dragons in the Waters finds Polly taking an unforgettable trip to Europe, all by…