Many Waters #4 / Madeleine L'Engle.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780312368579
- Physical Description: 357 pgs : genealogical table ; 20 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Square Fish 2007.
Content descriptions
Target Audience Note: | 5.2 Follett Library Resources. 3-6 Follett Library Resources. 700L Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.7 10 5945. |
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Genre: | Time-travel fiction. Fantasy fiction. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Putnam County Library System.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Putnam County Public Library | J L'EN (Text) | 33192000069456 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
School Library Journal Review
Many Waters
School Library Journal
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Gr 6 Up Fans of the Murry family will welcome this tangental return to the ``Time Trilogy'' books (Farrar) as L'Engle spins another uniquely metaphysical fantasy, this time using the twins, Sandy and Dennys, at age 15, as her protagonists. On a cold day, Dennys absent-mindedly requests his father's computer to take them ``someplace warm.'' Suddenly, it's the twins' turn to tessor, and they end up in a desert so hot that they nearly die of sun poisoning. As they meet the small people who inhabit it, including Lemach, Shem, Ham, Japheth, and finally, Noah, they realize that they are in the world as it existed before the Great Flood. What follows is an entertaining description of life in this ancient time and place, when angels and fallen angels walked the earth, and small mammoths could call unicorns into existence. The story is more tension than plot: the tension of the Nephilim, fallen angels whose power on earth seems somehow threatened by the mysterious arrival of the twins; the sexual tension that both Sandy and Dennys feel as they are drawn to Yalith, Noah's youngest daughter; and the tension that readers feel, wondering how those protagonists not mentioned in Genesis (the twins and Yalith) are going to survive the Flood, which is plainly imminent throughout the book. This suspense lacks the urgency found in the other books of the trilogy, however, mainly because the characters are subservient to atmosphere, incident, and ideas. It is as hard for readers to tell the twins apart as it is for Noah. One is curious as to how they will escape, but hardly worried. The strength of this book lies in its haunting descriptions of a time resonant of our own. Its weakness is a pat ending and characters so slightly drawn that we hardly care. Christine Behrman, New York Public Library (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.