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: 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
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
Description: Good. DJ has small tears and bumping along edges, library marking on spine, Pages are clean and tight with typical ex-library markings. One plain fly page torn out. By the author of "A Wrinkle in Time". Includes "L'Engle Family tree on inside front and back end pages. 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: 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 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: 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
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Laurel-leaf Fantasy
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780440952527ISBN:0440952522
Description: Very Good. Very Good+. Tight spine, light cover and edge wear and no markings. "The Time Travel Trilogy continues. " Young adult fiction. (#12773) read more
"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."
"This Time Quartet book seems not to fit in really well with the other three, but I liked it very much. For one thing, it follows the twins, Sandy and Dennys, who were hardly noticed in the other three books except that they were described as the most "normal" of the Murry children. For another, they were not granted some great mission, like Meg and Charles Wallace in the other three Time books. It was much more like the Wizard of Oz, where the boys, having stumbled into a different world, need mostly to figure out how to get home. But the time they've stumbled into was the time of Noah, just before the great flood, and it is depicted in a way I had never pictured the biblical story, with rich characters and unexpected story lines. I'd recommend it to friends."
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