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    <body><![CDATA[I LOVE this book it is amazing! i've read this book about 5 times and i'm still not sick of it.it's about a girl named vicky who falls for a guy named adam. he doesn't really think she's all that special until he realizes she can communicate w/ dolphins! Then it becomes a battle for her heart becaus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41992101">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my second time reading this book.  The first time I read it, which was quite awhile ago, it immediately became one of my favorite books.  Reading it again as an older and perhaps more discriminating reader, I still enjoyed it immensely but was more aware of flaws.<br/><br/>Although there ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39549264">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In my youth I was on a L'engle tear having gone through the &quot;Time&quot; series...however I didn't get the memo that L'engle's writing ministry developed into one catered towards guiding pre-adolescent females through their awkward years.<br/><br/>Needless to say, I caught on when I realized t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/216798">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had to read Meet the Austins and The Moon by Night, the first two Austin Family novels, in eighth grade.  While I didn't like Meet the Austins as it read like a juvenile fiction book, I fell in love with The Moon by Night and the book's heroine, Vicky Austin.  I reread the book so many times, the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81492366">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been going through a pile of books that I've been given to see if they are worth keeping. Most aren't worth commenting about...this book on the other hand left me a bit perplexed about how well I liked it. <br/><br/>The back of the book and the first few chapters it seemed like a realistic fi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75323840">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great read from what I remember from high school.  I like L'Engle's writing.  <br/><br/>However, from what I remember, I think she paints the Austins as a perfect family, which doesn't exist.  Also, though this is not at all a &quot;naughty&quot; romance novel, and more of a young-adult book (alth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57239431">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ring reminded me why I love love love L'Engle's books--top-notch story-telling, characters I deeply relate to, fresh perspective on big issues. Oh, and I love Mrs. Austin's disdain toward reverse sexism--the idea that a woman should not be free to choose a traditional role. So good.<br/><br/>Unfor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66694319">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd forgotten how lovely this story is, perched on the edge of adolescence in its most beautiful sense. During a summer spent on the island where her dying grandfather lives, Vicky Austin (distant relation of the <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18131.A_Wrinkle_in_Time_Time_Series_1_" title="A Wrinkle in Time (Time Series, #1) by Madeleine L'Engle">A Wrinkle in Time</a> kids) explores loss and life among her wonderfully drawn siblings and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81086461">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book I think everyone should read at least once in their lives. It deals a lot with the pain of death and other hard life experience that people go through. In this book her grandfather is a wise man who helps her tremendously through advice and literature.  Some advice he gives her is to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64800827">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my all-time favorite book. Not &quot;just&quot; for adolescent readers, this is the story of a girl experiencing first love, the pain of loss, and finding her own way through life. L'Engle's characters, as always, are vivid, full of truth, and invite you into the story as part of their famil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49242381">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Austin Family series doesn't have the same magic and mystery of the <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= A Wrinkle in Time" title=" A Wrinkle in Time"> A Wrinkle in Time</a> series, but it has its own magic. I haven't read the first three Austin books, but I might now. I would love to be part of their discussions.<br/><br/>I listed it as a teen book because the heroine is 15 and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39292197">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this might be the deepest of all the Austin novels.  It's certainly my favorite.  <br/>The author's talent for lyricism and word usage shines brightly in this book, as does her understanding of love and loss, life and death.  It's a story about growing up and discovering who you are, but al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16512381">more...</a>]]></body>
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