Time quintet | Amherst Town Library

1) A wrinkle in time

Author

L'Engle, Madeleine

Series

Time quintet volume 1
Time fantasy volume 1

Appears on list

Newbery Medal Winners

Formats

Book, Large Print, Audiobook CD, Audiobook Playaway, eAudiobook

Description

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Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are guided by unearthly strangers as they go on a journey through space and time to search for Meg's and Charles' scientist father who disappeared while experimenting with a new form of space travel.

2) A wind in the door

Author

L'Engle, Madeleine

Series

Time quintet volume 2

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook

Description

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"With Meg Murry's help, the dragons her six-year-old brother saw in the vegetable garden play an important part in his struggle between life and death" -- Title page verso.

3) A swiftly tilting planet

Author

L'Engle, Madeleine

Series

Time quintet volume 3
Time fantasy volume 3

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook

Description

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Fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace Murry and the unicorn Gaudior must travel through time and space in a battle against an evil dictator who would destroy the entire universe. Includes an interview with the author.

4) Many waters

Author

L'Engle, Madeleine

Series

Time quintet volume 4

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD

Description

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The fifteen-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 building a boat in preparation for a great flood.

5) An acceptable time

Author

L'Engle, Madeleine

Series

Time quintet volume 5
Laurel-leaf fantasy
Quintet time

Description

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Polly's visit to her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious stangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.