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. 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 twins are rescued by Japheth, a man from the nearby oasis, but before he can bring them to safety, Dennys gets lost. The book allows the reader to decide how. 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. In writing this story, Madeleine LEngle once again leads the reader on a fantastic journey through space and time. Then the two boys are thrown across time and space. Nothing especially interesting has happened to the twins until they accidentally interrupt their father’s experiment. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraordinary Murry family.
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