About this title: The fourth in the "Time Quartet" series, this book focuses on Sandy and Dennys, the twins of the Murray family featured in such books as "A Wrinkle in Time" and "A Wind in the Door". Life for the twins is relatively run-of-the-mill until the day they discover the new computer in their parents' laboratory. When they type in "Take me someplace warm. ...
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Laurel-Leaf Books
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780440227700ISBN:0440227704
Description: Nelson, Cliff, and Sis, Peter. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Book is in very good condition-ONLY flaw is minimal reading wear including edgewear. SHIPS V FAST! ! Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 336 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780374347970ISBN:0374347972
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Book unmarked and shows slight wear. Cover bears very sticky old price sticker. 310 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has minimal wear; pages are unmarked. One page has a minute tear on side page edge. SHIPS NEXT DAY. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Yearling Books
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780440405481ISBN:0440405483
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Good general condition. Pages clean and unmarked. Some cover wear. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. Commemorative edition with an introduction by the author. A touch of the computer keys, a blast of heat, and suddenly the Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are gasping in a shimmering desert. If only the brothers had normal parents, not a scientist mother and a father who experiments with travel in space and time. If only the ... read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Yearling Books
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780440405481ISBN:0440405483
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Book is in excellent condition-ONLY flaw is remains of a sticker from original owner on back cover. Pgs are clean and tight. SHIPS V FAST! ! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Yearling Books
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780440405481ISBN:0440405483
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, shelf wear to cover, light creases on spine, light aging to pages, bend on corners of cover & bottom of last page, 1" tear on bottom of front cover along spine, stk #2466r8. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Description: Good. Spine is smooth. Covers show some wear at the edges and corners. Good reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Description: Good. Spine is well creased. Covers show wear at the edges and corners. Good Grade C average reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Description: Good. Spine is smooth. Covers show some wear at the edges and corners. Good reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Description: Very Good. 0440952522 MMPB evidences gentle use; it is free of markings but lightly tanned with age. Its cover shows only minor shelf wear. Your book will be carefully protected for transit in sturdy, weather-resistant packaging. We are prompt, efficient, communicative. read more
Description: Very Good. 0440405483 Great condition Soft Cover book, clean pages, mild creases to spine, light edge/corner rubs, this book is GREAT! Shop & Save With US. read more
"Three or four stars...I wish they had halves...does it matter? Well, I've had this book for many years but never read it. I bought it who knows when because it is part of the series of 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I still remember the wonder I had when I read 'Wrinkle', and plan to read it and the others of the series again some day.
'Waters' was enjoyable, and not dependent on the previous books to understand. The twins, Sandy and Dennys, are now 15, and were known to be doers and the pragmatists in the family of geniuses...always happy with their role. In their quest to satisfy their hunger/thirst they end up in their mother's lab, and mess around with one of their father's experiments in progress.
As it's winter in New England, they wish for somewhere warm and sparsely populated...they are transported somewhere in place and time...a desert land with midgets, dog-sized mammoths, manticores, seraphim and nephilim. Japheth saves them at first, his sister Yalith develops a special relationship with 'the Sand' and 'the Den', his father Noah, and beautiful (experienced) sister-in-law Tiglah also have their roles.
Nice story from Madelieine where believing in Unicorns always has a place in her world and ours."
"It is hard to do any justice to this author's books--they are so unique, so deep, so well-written. This one is about 2 modern day boys going back to Noah's time and it is so dusty, so hot, so gritty; she was able to portray colors, feelings, sensations, emotions in this interestingly set book. Her capacity to use the English language is amazing and that's what I love about her books, as well as this description which I did not write: "L'Engle's mystical mix of science fiction and fantasy, time and space travel, history, morals, religion, and culture once again urges her many adoring readers to stretch their minds and hearts to understand why the world is the way it is.""
"This book was good and interesting. Sandy and Dennsy, the Murry twins, accidently mess up one of their Father's experiments with a tesseract and suddenly are transported back in time and help Noah build his ark in time to escape the giant flood they know is going to come. This book was good, but there was one thing I found very strange: the author shortened her sentences, and this bothered as well as puzzled me. For example, instead of saying 'He got up and walked across the room and sat down,' she would write 'He got up. Walked across the room. Sat down.' It was very strange."
"The final book of the "Time" quartet, of which I really only loved the first two. Still, this one was entertaining and with a new approach that is, in its way, just as mind-bendingly fantastic as the others.
Twin brothers Sandy and Dennys, who have so far avoided most of the strange adventures that have ensnared their sister and little brother, are finally in for one. Poking around in their mother and father's lab, they decide to inspect one of the ongoing experiments, despite its warning sign. And without further ado, they find themselves in the middle of a desert wasteland.
So begins the proudly "normal", skeptical pair's trip through space-time, into a world that bears a startling resemblence to biblical stories. They will meet none other than the family of Noah himself, a tribe of desert dwellers unaware that a flood may soon be upon them. But the humans are not alone; walking this fantastic world are unicorns that can teleport and be ridden only by virgins, miniature mammoths that unerringly find water, vicious manticores that attack without warning, and shapeshifting beings straight from biblical legend: the wise and compassionate seraphim and their crafty cousins the nephilim.
The ties to religion are obviously stronger in this book than in L'Engle's other works, but somehow I didn't mind as I usually do. The characters were interesting, though not all of them were very well fleshed out, and the world itself was masterfully built. Above all, Sandy and Dennys are very different main characters than the open-minded Meg and Charles Wallace, and they're great to get to know; somehow it's even more interesting to watch 15-year-old skeptics deal with the fantastic."
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