Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Book Reviews of An Acceptable Time (Time, Bk 5)

An Acceptable Time (Time, Bk 5)
An Acceptable Time - Time, Bk 5
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
PBS Market Price: $7.59 or $3.69+1 credit
ISBN-13: 9780312368623
ISBN-10: 0312368623
Publication Date: 5/1/2007
Pages: 224
Reading Level: Young Adult
Rating:
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 7

4 stars, based on 7 ratings
Publisher: Square Fish
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review

8 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

reviewed An Acceptable Time (Time, Bk 5) on + 10 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
More about the Murry family. You first met them in A Wrinkle In Time. The main character in this book is Meg's daughter Polly. She visits her grandparents and steps into another time.
sealady avatar reviewed An Acceptable Time (Time, Bk 5) on + 657 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
From Publishers Weekly: "For this time-slip novel, L'Engle again reaches into her bag of weird and wonderful knowledge, blending snippets of tantalizing information from a variety of disciplines--history, natural history, physics and Christian metaphysics, to name a few--into a rich and heady brew. Red-haired Polly O'Keefe (last seen in A House Like a Lotus ) arrives at her grandparents' farm in Connecticut for some private tutoring. There, in a landscape familiar to L'Engle fans (who will be pleased to know that the Nobel Prize-winning Mrs. Murry still cooks over a Bunsen burner), Polly slips back 3000 years into a different time "spiral." She meets Anaral, a Native American girl; Karralys, a druid banished from Britain for his progressive thinking; and Tav, a handsome warrior who accompanied the druid to their new land. Polly travels back and forth between the two worlds, and eventually her purpose becomes clear: with the aid of her new friends she forges peace between two clashing tribes, and helps Zachary Gray (also from A House Like a Lotus ), a self-centered but very ill young man. The story is laced together with L'Engle's now-familiar theme of the transcendent importance of love. This fine fantasy, firmly rooted in reality, is the kind of thoughtful story at which L'Engle excels. Ages 12-up."
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review: "When Polly O'Keefe visits her grandparents in Connecticut, she finds herself caught up in the lives of three mysterious strangers [who lived] 3,000 years ago [and] travels back in time to play a crucial role in an ancient confrontation...L'Engle has again achieved the award-winning style of A Wrinkle in Time. . .Highly recommended." --VOYA
reviewed An Acceptable Time (Time, Bk 5) on + 3352 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Another in L'Engles Murry-O'Keefe series. Good continuation of this saga.
reviewed An Acceptable Time (Time, Bk 5) on + 90 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This was a fairly good read, although I got the impression I had missed an earlier book in the series. Although I think it was written in 89 or thereabouts, it still had a timeless feel. I was somewhat disappointed that the rest of the family didn't make an appearance.
reviewed An Acceptable Time (Time, Bk 5) on + 66 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
The series does get confusing to figure out...passing that, I love her books.
krznana avatar reviewed An Acceptable Time (Time, Bk 5) on + 8 more book reviews
a very good ending to the series.
reviewed An Acceptable Time (Time, Bk 5) on + 46 more book reviews
Good young person's book
reviewed An Acceptable Time (Time, Bk 5) on + 33 more book reviews
A flash of lightning, quivering ground, and, instead of her grandparents' farm, Poly sees mist and jagged mountains -- and coming toward her, a group of young men carrying spears.

Why has a time gate opened and dropped Poly into a world that existed 3,000 years ago? Will she be able to get back to the present before the time gate closes -- and leaves her to face a group of people who believe in human sacrifice?