Madeleine L'Engle

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.

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.

During the summer her grandfather is dying of leukemia and death seems all around, 15-year-old Vicky finds comfort with the pod of dolphins with which she has been doing research.

A marine biology student reporting to his summer job on an island off Portugal finds himself at the center of a power struggle between his boss and another group of Americans.

Fifteen-year-old Camilla gains new maturity through her relationship with her best friend's brother and the growing realization that her parents are fallible individuals.

Katherine Forrester is sent to a very restrictive private school after the death of her pianist mother, from which she emerges to study piano in New York as a protege of the great master who taught her mother.