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A swiftly tilting planet / Madeleine L'Engle.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection PS3523.E55 S8 1980
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- L'Engle, Madeline.
- Series:
- Laurel-leaf books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Murry family (Fictitious characters)--Juvenile fiction.
- Murry family (Fictitious characters).
- Siblings--Juvenile fiction.
- Siblings.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Time travel--Juvenile fiction.
- Time travel.
- Nuclear warfare--Juvenile fiction.
- Nuclear warfare.
- Space and time--Juvenile fiction.
- Space and time.
- Good and evil--Juvenile fiction.
- Good and evil.
- Gifted teenagers--Juvenile fiction.
- Gifted teenagers.
- Unicorns--Juvenile fiction.
- Unicorns.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : [Published by Dell Publishing Co., Inc.], [1980.]
- Summary:
- The youngest of the Murry children must travel through time and space in a battle against an evil dictator who would destroy the entire universe.
- Contents:
- In this fateful hour
- All heaven with its power
- The sun with its brightness
- The snow with its whiteness
- The fire with all the strength it hath
- The lightning with its rapid wrath
- The winds with their swiftness
- The sea with its deepness
- The rocks with their steepness
- The earth with its starkness
- All these I place
- Between myself and the powers of darkness.
- Notes:
- "A companion to A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door.--Cover.
- Cover illustration signed "Rowena".
- "First Laurel-Leaf printing July 1979 ... Seventh Laurel-Leaf printing June 1980."
- Originally published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978.
- Reading level 6.4.
- ISBN:
- 0440901588
- OCLC:
- 967095533
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