Madeleine L'Engle
Paperback | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.85 | 9218 Users | 345 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Arm of the Starfish |
| ISBN: | 0440901839 (ISBN13: 9780440901839) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | O'Keefe Family #1, Kairos #5 |
| Characters: | Meg Murry, Calvin O'Keefe, Poly O'Keefe, Adam Eddington, Kali Cutter, Charles O'Keefe, Sandy O'Keefe, Dennys O'Keefe, Johnny O'Keefe, Rosy O'Keefe, Joshua Archer, Canon John Tallis, Arcangelo, Dr. Didymus, Dr. Eliphaz Ball, Typhon Cutter |
| Literary Awards: | Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1967) |
Description As Books The Arm of the Starfish (O'Keefe Family #1)
When Adam Eddington, a gifted marine biology student, makes the acquaintance of blond and beautiful Kali Cutter at Kennedy International Airport on his way to Portugal to spend the summer working for the renowned scientist Dr. O'Keefe, he has no idea that this seemingly chance meeting will set into motion a chain of events he will be unable to stop. Caught between Kali's seductive wiles and the trusting adoration of Dr. O'Keefe's daughter, Poly, Adam finds himself enmeshed in a deadly power struggle between two groups of people, only one of which can have right on its side. As the danger escalates, Adam must make a decision that could affect the entire world--which side is he on?Define Containing Books The Arm of the Starfish (O'Keefe Family #1)
| Title | : | The Arm of the Starfish (O'Keefe Family #1) |
| Author | : | Madeleine L'Engle |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | December 15th 1979 by Laurel Leaf Library (first published January 1st 1965) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Fiction. Fantasy. Science Fiction. Childrens |
Rating Containing Books The Arm of the Starfish (O'Keefe Family #1)
Ratings: 3.85 From 9218 Users | 345 ReviewsEvaluate Containing Books The Arm of the Starfish (O'Keefe Family #1)
The tone of this book is unusual. It's got a little of that urban otherness that The Young Unicorns has, but that quality is executed better here. Adam might be suddenly in over his head, but it's mostly believable. He's great. And Joshua is EVERYTHING.That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.That line jumps out and hits you - along with that ending - just the way the last paragraph in the Frost poem hits Joshua.My love for thisAdam Eddington is going to work with Dr. O'Keefe (Calvin from Wrinkle in time who is a world-renowned marine biologist) this summer on the island of Gaea. Before even boarding his plane, he is sidetracked by a very attractive young woman, Kali Cutter, who is familiar with Dr. O'Keefe and his work and warns him against them, saying they are unpatriotic and devious and that her father is working to make it right. This immediately colors Adam's opinion of the O'Keefes and drops him into a world of
After finishing the A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy I sort of expected the protagonists to have a peaceful, quiet life, after having, one way or another, managed to overcome some dark forces of the universe, not all, just some. Well, not really. Here we find my dear friends, Calvin, Meg and their delightful children (they have a lot of kids which is wonderful***I love, love big families) in a very dangerous adventure, more earthly, than universal, where Calvin's, Dr. O'Keeffe now, research, a valuable
Really good young adult fiction here. Goes up on the list with Z for Zachariah, Ender's Game, and Feed as one of my favorite books written for young people. A few things I really liked about it: There was genuine ambiguity in the characters. L'Engle wrong-foots you from the beginning, and even when you think you've got everything sorted, she'll throw another monkey-wrench in the gears. The links to previous L'Engle books was fun. I was really confused when Adam got to the O'Keefe's house, and
I love A Wrinkle in Time more than almost any other childhood book and was shocked at how much I didnt enjoy this. It has a convoluted plot, strikingly normative gender roles, and a strangely close relationship between a twelve and a sixteen(?) year old that made me uncomfortable. I felt like I didnt know the characters, which is weird because several of them are favorites from A Wrinkle in Time. They felt like the color they had in that book was totally washed out by their adulthood here. I
I read The Arm of the Starfish as a child 50 years ago; therefore, when I gave up on Madeleine LEngles sequels to A Wrinkle in Time, I thought Id re-read this book so as to give her another chance.Although some of the characters from that other series pop up (a grown-up Meg Murry and Calvin OKeefe), readers who begin with The Arm of the Starfish will do just fine without having read A Wrinkle in Time or its inferior sequels. The Arm of the Starfish differs considerably from LEngles best-known
Unlike the other books in the Wrinkle in Time series, this one takes place on Earth and deals mostly with reality, although Dr. O'Keefe's research is in an area that is pure fantasy. Adam is 16 and is working for the summer for Dr. O'Keefe. You see most of the events from his viewpoint. Mostly the book is grim and somewhat dark and the ending was a downer. I was disappointed.
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