"Yoo''s cover art is enchanting."--Seven Impossible Things
Before Breakfast blog
"A coming of age fantasy story that sympathizes with typical teen
girl awkwardness and insecurity, highlighting courage,
resourcefulness and the importance of famiyl ties as key to
overcoming them."--Carol Platt Liebau, author, in the New York
Post
Madeleine L’Engle 1918–2007 was born in New York
City and attended Smith College. She wrote more than 60 books, the
most famous of which is A Wrinkle In Time 1962, winner of
the Newbery Award in 1963. L’Engle continued the story of the Murry
family from A Wrinkle In Time with seven other novels five
of which are available as A Wrinkle In Time Quintent from
Square Fish. She also wrote the famous series featuring the Austin
family, beginning with the novel Meet The Austins 1960.
L’Engle revisited the Austins four more times over the next three
decades, concluding with Troublinga Star in 1994. The
story of the Austins had some autobiographical elements, mirroring
Madeleine’s life and the life of her family. Madeleine
L’Engle’slast book, The Joys of Love, is a romantic,
coming-of-age story she wrote back in the 1940s, and is being
published by FSG