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An Acceptable Time
by L'Engle, Madeleine
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0440208149
- ISBN 13
- 9780440208143
- Seller
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Shell Lake, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Laurel Leaf Books. Fair. 1990. Paperback. 0440208149 . Time Quartet; Ex-Library; Vol. 5; 9 oz.; 343 pages; PB Ex Library w/library markings aged/wear clean tight reading condition. Time Quartet Book 5. A flash of lightning, quivering 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 3,000 years ago? Will she be able to get back to the present before the time gate closes -- and leaves her to face a group of people who believe in human sacrifice? .
Synopsis
An Acceptable Time is a 1989 young adult science fiction novel by Madeleine L'Engle, the last of her books to feature Polyhymnia O'Keefe, better known as Poly or Polly (A House Like a Lotus, An Acceptable Time),. Marketed as part of the author's Time Quintet (the other four volumes of which are called the Time Quartet), An Acceptable Time connects Polly's adventures with those of her parents, Meg Murry, and Calvin O'Keefe, which take place a generation earlier.
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Details
- Seller
- Mistymornin Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 24930
- Title
- An Acceptable Time
- Author
- L'Engle, Madeleine
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0440208149
- ISBN 13
- 9780440208143
- Publisher
- Laurel Leaf Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- 0440208149
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction/Fantasy; Children's Books / Young Adult/Chapter;
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