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Title: The Moon by Night (Austin Family) by Madeleine L'Engle ISBN: 0-440-95776-1 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 15 April, 1981 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A book well worth your time!
Comment: Vicky Austin is the main character of this touching novel. Her family is moving to New York; and to help soften the blow, they decide to camp all the way across the United States. Vicky takes this especially hard, because the move from rural Thornhill, to New York means ripping out everything she's established. Vicky slowly matures over the summer, and is exhilarated when she's followed across the country by Zachary Gray. Over the summer she learns many things about entering the adult world. I found this book to be yet another masterpiece by Madeleine L'Engle. She tends to carry characters over, and Vicky Austin reappears in several other books. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and one of the things I found to be the most interesting was the character development. I can't wait to read another one!
Rating: 5
Summary: The Moon by Night
Comment: The Moon by Night, written by Madeleinel L' Engle was one of the best books that I have read in a long time. This is a story of a troubled boy (Zachary) who has found interest in a very simple girl (Vicky), and both are trying to distinguish themselves. Vicky has always been overshadowed by her younger sister and older brother, and is now being followed by Zachary, who which none of her family appears to like. The Moon by Night is a lovely book about a girl growing up, and a boy trying to find himself.
Rating: 5
Summary: More than typical teen-aged angst
Comment: Every adult-in-the-making goes through at least one "difficult year." For Vicky Austin, that year comes when she's 14. She hasn't been able to do anything right (or it seems that way to her, at least!) for months, and now her parents have decided to tear her previously secure world apart. Dr. Austin is taking a temporary research and teaching position in New York City, leaving his small-town medical practice in another doctor's hands. The Austin family's home in Thornhill, Connecticut will be occupied by that other doctor's family, and that's where their pets will remain, too. But before they move into a New York apartment, the Austins embark on a cross-country camping trip - from Atlantic (Grandfather Eaton's home on Seven Bay Island) to Pacific (Laguna Beach, California, where they visit Uncle Douglas and Aunt Elena) and back.
It's an eventful trip during which Vicky has her first taste of romance, as she meets and is followed all the way across the country by a troubled and sometimes frightening rich boy named Zachary Grey. Zach's angry, hopeless response to life (which he fears losing at any moment, thanks to a rheumatic fever damaged heart) forces Vicky to confront twin demons that are making her own life miserable, in what L'Engle sensitively yet unsentimentally presents as something more than typical teen-aged angst. Vicky is part of the first generation to grow up under the shadow of the atom bomb, becoming aware of world events and their significance at the Cold War and nuclear arms race's height (this book's copyright date is 1963). She's become old enough, during her "difficult year" of being 14, to realize that she and everyone she loves can die at any moment; and she's also become old enough to ask herself whether or not God is really there. The love and respect she has for her grandfather, a minister and former missionary, can't save her from wondering if Zachary and others like him may not be right.
Although I didn't find THE MOON BY NIGHT as enjoyable a read as other L'Engle books because it was a bit too introspective for me (I'm used to more action and dialog, and missed it sorely as I ploughed through page after page of interior monologue), it is nevertheless the one I would most recommend to today's young readers. I was just a little bit younger in 1963 than Vicky Austin, and I remember only too well how it felt to know that my generation might not live to grow up - much less middle-aged or old - thanks to a world suddenly grown far smaller and more dangerous than the one in which our parents came of age. The children of post-911 should find plenty to identify with in Vicky's crisis of hope and faith, and much encouragement in its resolution.
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Title: Meet the Austins by Madeleine L'Engle ISBN: 044095777X Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 15 April, 1981 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: The Young Unicorns (Laurel Leaf Books) by MADELEINE L'ENGLE ISBN: 0440999197 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 01 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: A Ring of Endless Light (Austin Family) by Madeleine L'Engle ISBN: 0440972329 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 01 August, 1981 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Arm of the Starfish (Laurel-Leaf Books) by Madeleine L'Engle ISBN: 0440901839 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 15 January, 1980 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Troubling a Star by Madeleine L'Engle ISBN: 0440219507 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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