Rating: Summary: another great book from L'Engle Review: Polly (Meg's daughter! ) is staying with her grandparents when she gets mysteriously sent back in time 3,000 years back. she meets druids, some peaceful and some who believe in human sacrifice. after a couple of times of this mysterious time travel, polly finds herself in a couple of sticky situations. i liked a wrinkle in time a bit more, and i look foward to reading the rest of the murry family boks.
Rating: Summary: A wonderful fantasy book by the one and only! Review: Madeleine Langle is Classic, and so are her books. I am a fan of hers, my first being A Wrinkle in Time. This book was strikingly wonderful with interesting facts of science, and history. Not only does this open up your imagination, but you learn from it too. This story has a lot to do with time lapses and going back 5,000 years ago to a tribe a peaceful living people called The People of The Wind. On an accident of walking around, Polly gets mixed in an issue concerning two times, sacrifice, love, and the change of history, possibly. It's a mind boggler and a wonderful book to read. I really recommend people to give it a try. Try everything once within reason!
Rating: Summary: Thank you so much, Madeleine! Review: This is an awesome book! Madeleine once again uses facts to write fiction. She obviously has an exceptional knowledge of history, and she has made a great book with her knowledge. This book is also cool because there's suspense, science, romance and drama all wrapped into a neat and tidy book! This is another one of Madeleine's best, so read it now!
Rating: Summary: A rewarding read! Review: I liked the cover of this book, that's why I bought it. The story is very interesting. I have read books with Druids in them before but never in America and never with Native Americans. I read on the review that the person said " for L'engle fans only" and I get the feeling that he thought the story lines didn't mesh. WELL BOO-HOO FOR HIM! Maybe if he had done some research on Druidism he'd know that the story lines (or maybe the mythology) go hand-in-hand together.The Druids were like high priests to the Celts (an old pagan religion). They worshiped a goddess called the Mother or Mother Earth, and had human sacrifices to her every harvest (Halloween). They wore white robes and carried staffs with mistletoe draped on them. (They were keen observers of nature. They noticed how mistletoe is such a cunning parasite) And by the way I noticed nothing to do with Christ unless you count the old Father. Read this book! You'll be none the wiser if you don't!
Rating: Summary: Fantastic! Review: This was the first book by Madeleine L'Engle that I ever read and I fell in love with her writing and her characters. I was ecstatic to find out that she had written more books about the same characters and I now own nearly every work of fiction she's ever written. I love this book so much because I discovered it at that time of life when you bumble through adolescence and you aren't really sure who you are and where you're going yet. You also aren't exactly sure anymore where you stand with people. Reading this story of Polly helped me to realise the same thing she does through the course of the novel: Friendship works both ways. Friends will always try their best to help each other and support each other. Friends do not sacrifice one another for personal gain. Friends love each other because of who they are. True friendship is forever and can cross time and space.
Rating: Summary: Best Book L'Engle's written! Review: This is the best book by Madeleine L'Engle I've ever read! Fantastico! I loved this book.
Rating: Summary: Not as good as some of her other work. Review: Normally I would probally absoloutely love this book, but I didn't. I was dissapointed because it did not meet the high expectaions I had by reading some of L'Engle's other books. Altogether, not such a bad read, but definately not one of the best.
Rating: Summary: A really good book Review: This book is really good. Anyone who can't stand R.L. Stine should read An Acceptable Time. It is very thought provoking an exciting at the same time. A book you continue thinking about weeks after reading.
Rating: Summary: People aren't always as they seem Review: I thought this book was interesting,and liked how she had to go over the time threshold. I would recommend this to ages 11-15. I thought this taught that the people you think care, arn't always the ones that turn out to care the most, and anything is possible. You can always meet new freinds no matter what happens to you, almost always anyway.Read this book!! I especially like when she goes for a swim in her pool, and can see stars up in the sky, and also when she goes to the star gazing rock, and the times change on her. ~~~~ Megan Czerwinski
Rating: Summary: Polly went back 3,000 years ago and almost had to stay. Review: I loved this book a lot. If you like fictional books I think you'd really like An Acceptable Time. This book is very imaginative and also has a really good story, but it's also sad in some parts. This book has risk, love and sadness, but it's also very good. I highly recommend it.
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