Many Waters (edit title)

Lisa edited the characters of Many Waters Sunday, October 11 2009.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
• Added the description of Sandy Murry: One in a set of identical twins from the Murry family.
• marked the description of Sandy Murry as not a spoiler

Shelfari edited the description of Many Waters Friday, July 31 2009.

• Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has happened to the twins until they accidentally interrupt their father's experiment. Then the two boys are thrown across time and space. They find themselves alone in the desert, where, if they believe in unicorns, they can find unicorns, and whether they believe or not, mammoths and manticores will find them. The twins are rescued by Japheth, a man from the nearby oasis, but before he can bring them to safety, Dennys gets lost. Each boy is quickly embroiled in the conflicts of this time and place, whose populations includes winged seraphim, a few stray mythic beasts, perilous and beautiful nephilim, and small, long lived humans who consider Sandy and Dennys giants. The boys find they have more to do in the oasis than simply getting themselves home--they have to reunite an estranged father and son, but it won't be easy, especially when the son is named Noah and he's about to start building a boat in the desert.

Sleekfeline edited the series of Many Waters Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Edited this book in the series: Time Quintet book 34 (Primary series)
• Removed this book in the series: Time Quartet book 3 (Primary series)

Shelfari edited the contributors of Many Waters Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Madeleine L'Engle:

Timothy Gray edited the summary of Many Waters Monday, July 20 2009.

• In the middle of a New England winter, the boys accidentally disturb an experiment in their parents' lab. A sonic boom - a blast of heat - and the boys find they have been transported to a vast, trackless desert which is shaken by periodic earthquakes. Providentially, they encounter a water prospector named Japheth who offers to help them find refuge at the nearest oasis. Sandy and Dennys are intrigued by the creatures which accompany them on their trip through this (as they initially assume) alien world, which include a two-foot-tall mammoth and a pair of unicorns which appear simultaneously to be, and not to be; and humans shorter than average.

  After a long ride through the desert during which they develop a severe case of heat stroke, the boys are separated when the unicorn Dennys is riding disappears. Sandy remains with Japheth and his elderly grandfather Lamech and is tended to by a variety of improbable beings, including a pelican. Dennys reappears in another tent, only to be bodily thrown into a refuse heap. Now seriously ill, he comes under the care of a friendly family with a large tent in the center of the oasis, headed by a gruff but kindly patriarch. As he recovers from his "sun-sickness", Dennys learns that his benefactor is in fact Japheth's father and Lamech's son - and his name is Noah. It soon becomes apparent that the boys have been transported back to Biblical times, just before the Great Flood. The pelican, scarab beetle and lion turn out to be the animal hosts of seraphim, who are surprisingly knowledgeable about quantum physics and twentieth century Earth. The nephilim, who also transform into animals, distrust the twins. They use their human wives to try to discover why Sandy and Dennys have come to the oasis, and whether they represent a threat.

  Separated for much of the book, the twins become more independent of each other, and learn that neither they nor reality itself is as ordinary as they previously supposed. Both gain maturity over the course of about a year in the desert with Noah and his family. They each fall in love with Noah's daughter Yalith, but do not act on their desires. Dennys convinces Noah to reconcile with Lamech, and both twins eventually care for the old man's gardens as they wait to discover a way home. After Lamech's death, Sandy is kidnapped. He refuses to use violence to escape, and is eventually found by Japheth. Both twins worry that Yalith is not to be on the Ark, and neither are they. Nevertheless, they help to build the Ark before returning home via unicorn.

  source: Wikipedia

Timothy Gray edited the series of Many Waters Monday, July 20 2009.

• Edited this book in the series: Time Quartet book 3 (Primary series)
• Removed this book in the series: Time Sextet (testing) book 4 (Primary series)

Timothy Gray edited the series of Many Waters Monday, July 20 2009.

• Added this book in the series: Time Sextet (testing) book 4 (Primary series)
• Edited this book in the series: Time Quartet book 3 (Primary series)
• Removed this book in the series: Time Sextet (testing)

Timothy Gray edited the series of Many Waters Monday, July 20 2009.

• Added this book in the series: Time Sextet (testing)

Timothy Gray edited the series of Many Waters Sunday, July 19 2009.

• Added this book in the series: Time Quintet book 3

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Many Waters Thursday, July 16 2009.

• A sudden snow shower put an end to hockey practice.