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by Madeleine L'Engle (Author) "She walked through an orchard, fallen apples red and cidery on the ground, crossed a stone wall, and wandered on into a small wood ..." (more)
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The characters from A House Like a Lotus return in what PW called "a rich and heady brew . . . fine fantasy, firmly rooted in reality." Ages 10-up.
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It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. "Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract." A tesseract (in case the reader doesn't know) is a wrinkle in time. To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Miss L'Engle's unusual book. A Wrinkle in Time , winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school). They are in search of Meg's father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.
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5.0 out of 5 stars L'Engle best fantasy, Jun 18 2004
By Krista Casada - See all my reviews
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This review is from: An Acceptable Time (Mass Market Paperback)
For me, this is one of those books that had, and keeps having, a huge positive impact. Yes, this is a time-travel tale, but more than that, it is a story about the kinds of sacrifice love is willing to make. Nobody gets beat over the head with the lesson here, but it will stick with you. Heads up: parts of this will be pretty heavy going for younger/more sensitive juvenile readers as blood sacrifice is discussed pretty frankly (though not at all graphically) here.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Slow, boring, hard time finishing., Jan 7 2004
This review is from: An Acceptable Time (Mass Market Paperback)
I really, really did not enjoy this book. It was way too dry and boring. The description was tiresome and slow and the characters didn't add to any of the already boring set-up. I have not read any of the previous books (with absolutely NO intention) so i'm not very familiar with any of the characters.

Just the book as a whole was just so.....slow. It got so annoying. The back of the book says Polly gets stuck in past, as if that's the first thing to happen. It takes 3/4th's of the book for this to occur. The ending with her best friend made no sense. This was my first fantasy book and it's a wonder i didn't stop reading books right there. Don't waste your time on this sorry excuse for a decent fantasy novel.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The same wonder and excitement as A WRINKLE IN TIME, Nov 22 2003
By Nina M. Osier (Augusta, ME USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: An Acceptable Time (Mass Market Paperback)
Polly O'Keefe, daughter of Meg Murry and Calvin O'Keefe from L'Engle's beloved A Wrinkle In Time, moves in with her maternal grandparents when the schools on remote Benne Seed Island prove inadequate for her abilities and interests. The two elderly but still active scientists supply the challenges Polly needs with their unique brand of home schooling, and their oldest grandchild savors the peace and undivided attention after a childhood spent as the oldest in a brood of seven. The calm of rural New England in autumn doesn't last, though. The Murry house sits on a spot that 3,000 years ago was considered sacred by those who lived in their valley then, and a retired Episcopal bishop who's their nearest neighbor has inadvertently opened a time gate to that era.

Zachary Grey, the self-absorbed young man who appears in several earlier L'Engle books (particularly the Austin series), shares Polly and Bishop Colubra's ability to pass through the gate and to see ancient folk who make the reverse trip. When the gate closes with that unlikely trio on its other side, Polly soon finds herself revered as a goddess - and at risk, made far more deadly by Zachary's cowardly actions, of being sacrificed by tribal leaders desperate to bring their drought-stricken people rain.

Of all the later L'Engle time novels, this one came closest to spinning the same magic spell for me that the first book did. It has the same wonder and excitement, but with a slightly harder edge that comes from having a slightly older and more experienced heroine. Or, perhaps, from being written for a different generation of young readers? Anyway, this not-so-young reader (I first read A Wrinkle In Time 40 years ago, at age 11) couldn't put An Acceptable Time down without finishing it. Superb, and - also like the first book - guaranteed to make you think!

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5.0 out of 5 stars An acceptable time
With the comtinuing series of a Wrinkle in time , the book An Acceptable time is the last book of the series. It is an amazing attribute to the series. Read more
Published on Sep 4 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars Another wonderful L'Engle book
Once again, Madeleine L'Engle manages to take us through a fantastic, yet believable world. In this novel, Polly, Meg's daughter, is spending time with her grandparents in New... Read more
Published on May 21 2003 by lisa

5.0 out of 5 stars This Fifth is Vintage L'Engle
The thing that first pricked my interest to read this book was a negative review about it written, I think, in a library journal. Read more
Published on May 19 2003 by Gord Wilson

5.0 out of 5 stars Another fantastic work of time-travel fantasy
Polly O'Keefe is the daughter of Meg Murry and Calvin O'Keefe from Madeline L'Engle's famous Time Quartet. Read more
Published on Jan 28 2003 by Nancy E.

4.0 out of 5 stars More than acceptable! Find the time to read it!
With "An Acceptable Time", the "Time Quartet" (beginning with the award winning "A Wrinkle in Time") became the "Time Quintet". Read more
Published on Jan 21 2003 by Godly Gadfly

5.0 out of 5 stars My review on An Acceptable Time by, Madeline L'Engle
An Acceptable Time
by, Madeline L'Engle

Polly O'Keefe, a brave girl who is well known to be wise beyond her years, gets trapped in an exciting and almost deadly... Read more

Published on Nov 18 2002 by Leah Arsenault

5.0 out of 5 stars another great addition to the time series
My friend Kristen let me borrow her copy of an acceptable time because I'm a huge fan of Madeleine L'Engel and I missed this book some how. Read more
Published on April 6 2002 by Rebecca Sanborn

3.0 out of 5 stars A typical adventure, but worth it.

After carrying off "A House Like a Lotus" so gracefully in the first person just a few years before, it is a bit of a comedown to see Polly O'Keefe relegated to third-person... Read more

Published on Aug 28 2001 by James Bow

5.0 out of 5 stars The Fire Behind The Story Sparkles
An Acceptable Time is another book in the L'Engle cannon that explores truths of reality through fantasy. Read more
Published on Jul 31 2001 by Diana M. Gauvin

5.0 out of 5 stars The first book that made me cry after reading it
After finishing this book for the first time, I cried and put it back in the shelf. After reading A Ring of Endless Light, I read it again, thinking "Yeah, it was sad. Read more
Published on April 28 2001

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