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FROM: "Jeanne Linn" <[removed]@libby.org>
REC'D: 3/17/01, 1:11 PM

I have a patron who wants readalikes for Madeleine L'Engle's books, either
juvenile or adult. Help please!!! I've only read one of them myself.
Jeanne Linn, Lincoln County Public Library, Libby, MT

FROM: "Roberta S. Johnson" <[removed]@nslsilus.org>
REC'D: 3/17/01, 3:59 PM

> I have a patron who wants readalikes for Madeleine L'Engle's books, either
> juvenile or adult. Help please!!! I've only read one of them myself.

I think of these as science fiction with emphasis on morality and family, so . . . I would
suggest The Giver or Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry, and perhaps the Homecoming
series by Orson Scott Card, which begins with The Memory of Earth. With a more
creepy tone, but also stories of family, try Margaret Mahy's The Changeover which has
a hint of teen romance ala A Wrinkle in Time ( I do mean *hint*).

RSJ

Roberta S. Johnson
Readers' Services Librarian
Des Plaines Public Library
[removed]@nslsilus.org
www.desplaines.lib.il.us
Opinions my own.

FROM: "Laura McCaffery" <[removed]@acpl.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 3/17/01, 4:10 PM

Some of the Ursala Le Guin would also be a good match.

>>> [removed]@nslsilus.org 03/17/01 16:48 PM >>>

> I have a patron who wants readalikes for Madeleine L'Engle's books, either
> juvenile or adult. Help please!!! I've only read one of them myself.

I think of these as science fiction with emphasis on morality and family, so . . . I would
suggest The Giver or Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry, and perhaps the Homecoming
series by Orson Scott Card, which begins with The Memory of Earth. With a more
creepy tone, but also stories of family, try Margaret Mahy's The Changeover which has
a hint of teen romance ala A Wrinkle in Time ( I do mean *hint*).

RSJ

Roberta S. Johnson
Readers' Services Librarian
Des Plaines Public Library
[removed]@nslsilus.org
www.desplaines.lib.il.us
Opinions my own.

FROM: aaron smith <[removed]@oplin.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 3/18/01, 4:01 PM

C.S. Lewis' _The Chronicles of Narnia_ (juvenile, though I didn't get
around to them until adulthood and loved them) and his _The Great Divorce_
(for adults) use a similar premise of fantasy in a theologically grounded
system, though certainly L'Engle is somewhat less direct with her
spiritual references, and Lewis does not place as much emphasis on family.

Aaron
Clermont County Public Library, Ohio


On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Jeanne Linn wrote:

> I have a patron who wants readalikes for Madeleine L'Engle's books, either
> juvenile or adult. Help please!!! I've only read one of them myself.
> Jeanne Linn, Lincoln County Public Library, Libby, MT
>
>
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FROM: "Doxtator, Jan" <[removed]@uwsp.edu>
REC'D: 3/19/01, 9:33 AM

How about Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine?

Jan Doxtator
Portage County Public Library
Stevens Point, WI 54481

FROM: Tracey Callison <[removed]@addison.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 3/19/01, 10:15 AM

> I have a patron who wants readalikes for Madeleine L'Engle's
> books, either
> juvenile or adult. Help please!!! I've only read one of them myself.

The first thing that comes to my mind is which books did the patron like?
Ms. L'Engle wrote in some fairly different styles or types of books,
from her science fiction/fantasy Wrinkle in Time series to
the Austin family saga (domestic fiction, with some romance), to what
appears to be adventure stories and various other things.
(I've read the Austin family books and the sf ones, but not the others)

Tracey Callison
Addison PL

FROM: "Brad Scott" <[removed]@ci.allen.tx.us>
REC'D: 3/19/01, 2:11 PM

When I think of Madeleine L'Engle, I think of fantasy-tinged stories about human beings who get caught up in otherworldly spiritual combat between forces of good and evil, with a mystical, non-dogmatic but generally Christian outlook. If that's what the patron is looking for then I might suggest the following:

C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy ("Out of the Silent Planet", "Perelandra", and "That Hideous Strength").

Charles Williams' theological thrillers ("War in Heaven", "Many Dimensions", "The Greater Trumps", etc.).

Peter S. Beagle's "The Last Unicorn" is not explicitly Christian, but might be of interest anyway. (And besides, Schmendrick the Magician is a hoot.)

J. Frank Peretti's books might be an outside possibility if the patron is sympathetic to Peretti's flavor of Christianity, although I would hesitate to say that his writing style is anywhere close to L'Engle's.

Bradley A. Scott
Allen (Texas) Public Library

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From: "Jeanne Linn" <[removed]@libby.org>
Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 11:49:22 -0700

>I have a patron who wants readalikes for Madeleine L'Engle's books, either
>juvenile or adult. Help please!!! I've only read one of them myself.
>Jeanne Linn, Lincoln County Public Library, Libby, MT
>
>
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>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
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FROM: "Marsha Valance" <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 3/19/01, 2:31 PM

For children's fantasy with a religious/moral tone, although her writing isn't of L'Engle's caliber, may I suggest Elizabeth Goudge's LITTLE WHITE HORSE and LINNETS AND VALERIANS.


Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
<[removed]@mpl.org>

FROM: Katherine Johnson <[removed]@epexchange.epnet.com>
REC'D: 3/20/01, 3:55 PM

If a reader liked the Wrinkle in Time series (or similar stories: contemporary children or teens in science fiction/fantasy stories), I shamelessly recommend a novel by a friend of mine: The Dream of the Stone by Christina Askounis. I read it because Christina wrote it, but I liked it so much I bought it for my
niece.


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