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    <body><![CDATA[Just barely edged out as my favorite book in the series (right behind &quot;A swiftly Tilting Planet&quot;).  Tells a story less concerned with love and justice and all about the hard choices that people (and deities) make in a flawed world.<br/><br/>An out and out retelling of the Biblical Deluge...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5489662">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[so... this was the first of all the books which made me realize while i was reading it that it was all christian imagery.  i mean, the arc and all - noah... hard to miss, right?  and that's what people say about aslan - just a jesus allegory - but i didn't have any christian education as a child, so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5022628">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has happened to the twins until they accidentally interrupt their father's experiment.<br/><br/>Then the two boys are thrown across time and space. They find themselves alone in the desert, where, if they believe in unicorns, they can find unicorns, and whether they believe or not, mammoths and manticores will find them.<br/><br/>The twins are rescued by Japheth, a man from the nearby oasis, but before he can bring them to safety, Dennys gets lost. Each boy is quickly embroiled in the conflicts of this time and place, whose populations includes winged seraphim, a few stray mythic beasts, perilous and beautiful nephilim, and small, long lived humans who consider Sandy and Dennys giants. The boys find they have more to do in the oasis than simply getting themselves home--they have to reunite an estranged father and son, but it won't be easy, especially when the son is named Noah and he's about to start building a boat in the desert.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just realized I accidentally skipped book 3 - ha! Oops. Well, the thing is, these books don't heavily rely on the previous books. I liked book 4 - as I enjoy creative imaginings of what life would be like in a different but similar culture; the fact that there is a biblical layer makes it all the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68068624">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the other contender for my favorite Madeleine L'Engle book.  I especially love this book because of its version of the biblical story of Noah and the flood, a story that I've heard often and that loses its luster since I spent my entire childhood in Sunday School.  L'Engle blends biblical id...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/316914">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has happened to the twins until they accidentally interrupt their father's experiment.<br/><br/>Then the two boys are thrown across time and space. They find themselves alone in the desert, where, if they believe in unicorns, they can find unicorns, and whether they believe or not, mammoths and manticores will find them.<br/><br/>The twins are rescued by Japheth, a man from the nearby oasis, but before he can bring them to safety, Dennys gets lost. Each boy is quickly embroiled in the conflicts of this time and place, whose populations includes winged seraphim, a few stray mythic beasts, perilous and beautiful nephilim, and small, long lived humans who consider Sandy and Dennys giants. The boys find they have more to do in the oasis than simply getting themselves home--they have to reunite an estranged father and son, but it won't be easy, especially when the son is named Noah and he's about to start building a boat in the desert.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read Many Waters as a young adult many years ago.  I have been re-reading many L'Engle books the past couple of years, and this one has been hard to get ahold of.  (Our large library system only has one copy, and it has had a long hold list.)  I finally got my chance and enjoyed revisiting t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50576725">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, get transported back to the time of Noah, just before the flood. I have to say, whatever you expect that to be like, L'Engle probably still has a surprise or two for you. Very good writing,. as always. THe plot is somewhat unsatisfactory to me towards the end, thou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52901913">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has happened to the twins until they accidentally interrupt their father's experiment.<br/><br/>Then the two boys are thrown across time and space. They find themselves alone in the desert, where, if they believe in unicorns, they can find unicorns, and whether they believe or not, mammoths and manticores will find them.<br/><br/>The twins are rescued by Japheth, a man from the nearby oasis, but before he can bring them to safety, Dennys gets lost. Each boy is quickly embroiled in the conflicts of this time and place, whose populations includes winged seraphim, a few stray mythic beasts, perilous and beautiful nephilim, and small, long lived humans who consider Sandy and Dennys giants. The boys find they have more to do in the oasis than simply getting themselves home--they have to reunite an estranged father and son, but it won't be easy, especially when the son is named Noah and he's about to start building a boat in the desert.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is hard to do any justice to this author's books--they are so unique, so deep, so well-written. This one is about 2 modern day boys going back to Noah's time and it is so dusty, so hot, so gritty; she was able to portray colors, feelings, sensations, emotions in this interestingly set book. Her c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63894788">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The fifteen-year-old Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are accidentally sent back to a strange Biblical time period, in which mythical beasts roam the desert and a man named Noah is building a boat in preparation for a great flood.<p><br/><br/>We've all done it. In the frigid depths of winter we've wished we could be magically transported to someplace warm and sunny. But most people don't have genius parents who just happen to be working on a scientific experiment with time travel at the moment of our wish. Sandy and Dennys Murry, the &quot;normal&quot; boys in a family of geniuses, suddenly find themselves trudging through a blazing-hot desert, seeking a far-off oasis for shade. Their desperate wandering brings them face-to-face with history&mdash;biblical history. Soon they're feeling right at home with Noah and his family. Even so, the urgent question is, how will Sandy and Dennys get back to their own place and time before the floods&mdash;the many waters&mdash;come? As they begin to cross the invisible border into adulthood, the twins must confront their ability to resist temptation and embrace integrity.<p><br/>In <em>Many Waters</em>, Madeleine L'Engle continues the Murry family saga, which includes <em>A Wrinkle in Time</em>; <em>A Wind in the Door</em>; and <em>A Swiftly Tilting Planet</em>, which won the American Book Award. L'Engle's mystical mix of science fiction and fantasy, time and space travel, history, morals, religion, and culture once again urges her many adoring readers to stretch their minds and hearts to understand why the world is the way it is. (Ages 9 and older) <em>&mdash;Emilie Coulter</em></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was good and interesting.<br/> Sandy and Dennsy, the Murry twins, accidently mess up one of their Father's experiments with a tesseract and suddenly are transported back in time and help Noah build his ark in time to escape the giant flood they know is going to come. <br/>This book was g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59544342">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has happened to the twins until they accidentally interrupt their father's experiment.<br/><br/>Then the two boys are thrown across time and space. They find themselves alone in the desert, where, if they believe in unicorns, they can find unicorns, and whether they believe or not, mammoths and manticores will find them.<br/><br/>The twins are rescued by Japheth, a man from the nearby oasis, but before he can bring them to safety, Dennys gets lost. Each boy is quickly embroiled in the conflicts of this time and place, whose populations includes winged seraphim, a few stray mythic beasts, perilous and beautiful nephilim, and small, long lived humans who consider Sandy and Dennys giants. The boys find they have more to do in the oasis than simply getting themselves home--they have to reunite an estranged father and son, but it won't be easy, especially when the son is named Noah and he's about to start building a boat in the desert.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has happened to the twins until they accidentally interrupt their father's experiment.<br/><br/>Then the two boys are thrown across time and space. They find themselves alone in the desert, where, if they believe in unicorns, they can find unicorns, and whether they believe or not, mammoths and manticores will find them.<br/><br/>The twins are rescued by Japheth, a man from the nearby oasis, but before he can bring them to safety, Dennys gets lost. Each boy is quickly embroiled in the conflicts of this time and place, whose populations includes winged seraphim, a few stray mythic beasts, perilous and beautiful nephilim, and small, long lived humans who consider Sandy and Dennys giants. The boys find they have more to do in the oasis than simply getting themselves home--they have to reunite an estranged father and son, but it won't be easy, especially when the son is named Noah and he's about to start building a boat in the desert.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was interesting because it not only took principles of physics (quantum leaps) but also the little-known Nephilum (fallen angels) and Seraphim of Noah's time (yes &quot;THE&quot; Noah of the Old Testament) and combined it into a thought-provoking tale of the Murray twins Dennys and Alexander (S...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31833057">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has happened to the twins until they accidentally interrupt their father's experiment.<br/><br/>Then the two boys are thrown across time and space. They find themselves alone in the desert, where, if they believe in unicorns, they can find unicorns, and whether they believe or not, mammoths and manticores will find them.<br/><br/>The twins are rescued by Japheth, a man from the nearby oasis, but before he can bring them to safety, Dennys gets lost. Each boy is quickly embroiled in the conflicts of this time and place, whose populations includes winged seraphim, a few stray mythic beasts, perilous and beautiful nephilim, and small, long lived humans who consider Sandy and Dennys giants. The boys find they have more to do in the oasis than simply getting themselves home--they have to reunite an estranged father and son, but it won't be easy, especially when the son is named Noah and he's about to start building a boat in the desert.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[The fifteen-year-old Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are accidentally sent back to a strange Biblical time period, in which mythical beasts roam the desert and a man named Noah is building a boat in preparation for a great flood.<p><br/><br/>We've all done it. In the frigid depths of winter we've wished we could be magically transported to someplace warm and sunny. But most people don't have genius parents who just happen to be working on a scientific experiment with time travel at the moment of our wish. Sandy and Dennys Murry, the &quot;normal&quot; boys in a family of geniuses, suddenly find themselves trudging through a blazing-hot desert, seeking a far-off oasis for shade. Their desperate wandering brings them face-to-face with history&mdash;biblical history. Soon they're feeling right at home with Noah and his family. Even so, the urgent question is, how will Sandy and Dennys get back to their own place and time before the floods&mdash;the many waters&mdash;come? As they begin to cross the invisible border into adulthood, the twins must confront their ability to resist temptation and embrace integrity.<p><br/>In <em>Many Waters</em>, Madeleine L'Engle continues the Murry family saga, which includes <em>A Wrinkle in Time</em>; <em>A Wind in the Door</em>; and <em>A Swiftly Tilting Planet</em>, which won the American Book Award. L'Engle's mystical mix of science fiction and fantasy, time and space travel, history, morals, religion, and culture once again urges her many adoring readers to stretch their minds and hearts to understand why the world is the way it is. (Ages 9 and older) <em>&mdash;Emilie Coulter</em></p></p>]]>
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