Meet the Austins (Austin Family, Book 1)
The moment Maggy Hamilton steps into the happy lives of the Austin family, she disrupts their harmonious world, bringing with her all the sullenness and insolence of her own misery.Vicky Austin knows she should sympathize with Maggy for being an orphan, but she can't help but resent her for...
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The moment Maggy Hamilton steps into the happy lives of the Austin family, she disrupts their harmonious world, bringing with her all the sullenness and insolence of her own misery.Vicky Austin knows she should sympathize with Maggy for being an orphan, but she can't help but resent her for making life so difficult. It looks like Maggy may be a member of the family for a long time, possibly forever. Vicky remembers the happy times and finally accepts that things will never be the same, but she wonders what's to come.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780440957775 (044095777X)
Publish date: March 15th 1981
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Series: Austin Family (#1)
Written in episodic form, this is the introduction to L'Engle's second favorite family, the Austins. Unlike many of her books, this one has no science fiction elements. It is the story of a family of 4 children, 2 dogs, and a bunch of cats, living in a rambling house on a hill in small town New Engl...
Meet the Austins by Madeleine L'Engle is an episodic type book about events in the lives of the Austin family. The book starts off with them being informed of the death of a close family friend and then shortly afterward they take in a little girl who was orphaned due to the same accident that kille...
Meet the Austins by Madeleine L'engle was pretty good. It took me a while to read, because I was busy reading other books, but I liked Meet the Austins. I liked the theme of family in this book. The Austins were a really nice family and they were always there for each other. I thought it was really ...
A good story, but nothing like her Time Quartet.
Preachier than the Murry books, by about a mile. There's a passage about Einstein and his religious belief or lack thereof that made me laugh out loud. It was not intended to be funny, I don't think. There's more overt Christianity in this book than I remembered.The Austin parents are idealized and ...
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