Prelude
by Madeleine L'Engle
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Sent to a Swiss school after the death of her mother, a young girl tries to cope with the problems of growing up and at the same time maintain her ambition to be a concert pianist.Tags
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Author Madeleine L'Engle was born in New York City on November 29, 1918. She graduated from Smith College. She is best known for A Wrinkle in Time (1962), which won the 1963 Newbery Medal for best American children's book. While many of her novels blend science fiction and fantasy, she has also written a series of autobiographical books, including show more Two Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage, which deals with the illness and death of her husband, soap opera actor Hugh Franklin. In 2004, she received a National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush. She died on September 6, 2007 of natural causes. Since 1976, Wheaton College in Illinois has maintained a special collection of L'Engle's papers, and a variety of other materials, dating back to 1919. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- "especially adapted for young readers by the author from the first part of her novel "The Small Rain."
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