Madeleine L’engle – An Acceptable Time

In this companion volume to A Wrinkle In Time (Newbery Award winner) and A Wind In The Door fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. They are not alone in their quest. Charles Wallace’s sister, Meg – grown and expecting her first child,A flash of lightning, a quiver in the ground, and, instead of her grandparents’ farm, Polly sees mist and jagged mountains—and coming toward her, a group of young men carrying spears.
Why has a time gate opened and dropped Polly into a world that existed three thousand years ago? Will she find her way back to the present before the time gate closes—and leaves her to face a group of people who believe in human sacrifice? but still able to enter her brother’s thoughts and emotions by “kything” – goes with him in spirit.

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