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Troubling a Star (Austin Family Chronicles #5)

Madeleine L'Engle

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 296 pages

Rating: 3.85 | 6769 Users | 290 Reviews

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Original Title:	Troubling a Star
ISBN:	0440219507 (ISBN13: 9780440219507)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Austin Family Chronicles #5
Characters:	Vicky Austin, Adam Eddington
Setting:	Antarctica

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I know many might find this a terrible thing to admit, but I've always loved A Ring of Endless Light and Troubling a Star best of all Madeleine L'Engle's books--yes, even more than A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels and companions. I'm not sure whether I can even explain why, other than to say that I somehow just really identify with Vicky Austin, more than I ever could with Meg or Cal or Charles Wallace or the twins. This book is sort of part mystery, part travel adventure, part political intrigue, and part coming-of-age story. Vicky gets in over her head when her friend (and crush) Adam Eddington heads to Antarctica with a research team and she's given the opportunity to join a cruise and follow along behind him, to meet up with him when she arrives. Only not everyone on the ship with her is there for sightseeing, and somebody thinks she knows more than she does. The story starts off right in thick of things and then goes back to tell us how Vicky got into such a dire situation. Yeah, sometimes Vicky seems a little old-fashioned, but...I don't know, she still somehow feels real, and Troubling a Star is a total comfort book for me that I just read over and over and over again. Plus, you know, I kind of have that whole obsession with Antarctica thing going. Anyway, this is one of my all-time faves.

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Title	:	Troubling a Star (Austin Family Chronicles #5)
Author	:	Madeleine L'Engle
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 296 pages
Published	:	August 1st 1995 by Laurel Leaf (first published 1994)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Fiction. Fantasy

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Ratings: 3.85 From 6769 Users | 290 Reviews

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This book was my first Austin Family book, and I really loved it when I first read it. I think it was the first thing I read that resembled a suspense or spy novel. This time around, I still enjoyed it, but more for the connections to Aunt Serena and the past, along with its letters and literature references, than I for the spy implications. Still, this book introduced me to the Austins, and I'm glad I read and re-read it.

This is a continuation/sequel to A Ring of Endless Light, but it's not nearly as good as that one. There's no magic to it, none of L'Engle's usual mystery.It is a mystery story, but it's a political mystery rather than a metaphysical one. Our heroine goes to Antarctica and gets caught up in a political power struggle for control of the continent. And, like in the previous book, the girl has three love interests. Three! And the one we're supposed to like is hardly in the book at all. Plus it



If it has feathers, it must be a bird.Enough said, really.Because formative books are formative.This reread reminded me of that period when I was convinced I was going to be a marine biologist and study penguins. Didn't quite happen (though, I'm not upset about it).I love this book. I love the sibling relationships between Vicky and John, and even Vicky and Suzy. I love Aunt Serena, I love Cook. I love the trip to Antarctica,and almost everyone on it. I love the discussions they have and the

(spoilers included)I really, really, really wanted to like this book. Madeline L'Engle is one of my favourite authors, and the previous book in this series, A Ring of Endless Light, is a nuanced and thematically harmonious look at a young adult's experiences of death and the interconnectedness of all living things. But this book turned out to be disappointing. Although there is a professed theme (moving a flower can affect the life of a star), it did not unify the story into a satisfying whole.

Re-read August 2013.ADAM. <3

I know many might find this a terrible thing to admit, but I've always loved A Ring of Endless Light and Troubling a Star best of all Madeleine L'Engle's books--yes, even more than A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels and companions. I'm not sure whether I can even explain why, other than to say that I somehow just really identify with Vicky Austin, more than I ever could with Meg or Cal or Charles Wallace or the twins. This book is sort of part mystery, part travel adventure, part political