Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L'Engle is a prolific writer of poetry, fiction, autobiography, and writings on scripture and the Christian life. Best known for the Newbery Award--winning A Wrinkle in Time and her classic work on faith and art, Walking on Water, L'Engle is the author of over fifty books. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, medals, and honorary degrees, including the National Religious Book Award. She lives in Connecticut and New York City.

A dramatization of the Biblical story of Jonah, unwilling prophet to Nineveh, who spent three days in the belly of a whale and learned a lesson of compassion from a withering vine.

"Meg and Charles Wallace Murry, along with their friend Calvin O'Keefe, set off on a series of adventures in which they try to rescue Meg and Charles Wallace's father from the Dark Thing, travel inside Charles Wallace's body, and stop a nuclear war." --

This second volume gathers the final four Kairos novels, in which Meg and Calvin's daughter Polly takes center stage. In The Arm of the Starfish, Polly disappears, and Calvin's research assistant is implicated in her kidnapping. In Dragons in the Waters, Polly and her brother Charles are on a steamer bound for Venezuela when they help solve a murder connected to a stolen portrait of Simon Bolivar. Polly receives an education in different kinds of...

"This first volume gathers Wrinkle with three books that chronicle the continuing adventures of Meg and her siblings. In A Wind in the Door, Meg and Calvin descend into the microverse to save Charles Wallace from the Echthroi, evil beings who are trying to unname existence. When a madman threatens nuclear war in A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Charles Wallace must save the future by traveling into the past. And in Many Waters, Sandy and Dennys, Meg's twin...

Describes an encounter in the desert when the animals came to a caravan campfire and danced with a child because fear was absent.

Fifteen-year-old Camilla gains new maturity through her relationship with her best friend's brother and the growing realizationthat her parents are fallible individuals.