Meet the Austins Summary
Madeleine L'Engle

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Meet the Austins Summary

The Austin family series contains four young adult novels, Meet the Austins, Moon by Night, The Young Unicorns, and A Ring of Endless Light, and two shorter books for younger children, The TwentyFour Days Before Christmas (1964) and The Anti-Muffins (1981). The series concerns a family of six: two parents, two boys, and two girls. Authentic enough to have faults as well as virtues, the Austin children will immediately attract readers. Some critics have complained...

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