Meet the Austins
by L'Engle, Madeleine
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair in Fair dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0814903525
- ISBN 13
- 9780814903520
- Seller
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Shell Lake, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Random House Books for Young Readers. Fair in Fair dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0814903525 . Austin Family; Ex-Library; Vol. 1; 16 oz.; 191 pages; Ex library HC in protected DJ library markings general wear clean/tight reading copy. #1 Austin Family Series. The moment Maggy Hamilton steps into the happy lives of the Austin family, she disrupts their harmonious world, bringing with her all the sullenness and insolence of her own misery. .
Synopsis
Meet the Austins is the title of a 1960 novel by Madeline L'Engle, the first of her books about the Austin family. It introduces the characters Vicky Austin and her three siblings, and Maggy Hamilton, an orphan. Vicky's noisy, loving, mostly-happy family is disrupted by the arrival of Maggy, a spoiled, troubled only child who had very little family life even before her father died in a plane crash.
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- Seller
- Mistymornin Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 30098
- Title
- Meet the Austins
- Author
- L'Engle, Madeleine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair in Fair dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0814903525
- ISBN 13
- 9780814903520
- Publisher
- Random House Books for Young Readers
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- 0814903525
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books / Young Adult/Chapter;
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