I was unimpressed by the title. It's not really a title to get you excited to open up a book. However, this was an ok inclusion in the Time Quintet that included A Wrinkle in Time. This deals with Meg and Calvin's daughter Polly. I wasn't really interested until there was talk of sacrificing Polly to stop a drought. Even her male lover Zachary tries to push Polly into it for his own personal needs. L'Engle was a really good children's writer in that she didn't try to dumb down her books for young readers. Some of the concepts of her books were pretty scientific. Reading this made me regret that I quit reading children's books when I was 11. I like going back now because of the innocence and imagination that are evident in children's literature. It's refreshing to read a book that isn't all about shock value.
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