· Meet the Austins is the title of a novel by Madeleine L'Engle, the first of her books about the Austin family. It introduces the characters Vicky Austin and her three siblings, and Maggy Hamilton, an orphan. Plot [edit]. Vicky Austin's noisy, loving, mostly-happy family is disrupted when the family's honorary uncle dies in a plane crash. Meet the Austins. For a family with four kids, two dogs, assorted cats, and a constant stream of family and friends dropping by, life in the Austin family home has always been remarkably steady and contented. When a family friend suddenly dies in a plane crash, the Austins open their home to an orphaned girl, Maggy bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 50 secs. When Meet the Austins was published in , Madeleine L'Engle was two years away from publishing her break out book A Wrinkle in Time. Somewhere I read that she was quite discouraged as an author at this time, even though she had been writing stories since childhood. She got published but prior to Wrinkle in Time her books had not sold well/5(K).
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Meet the Austins is Book One in the pentology The Austin Family Chronicles, introducing the reader to Vicky Austin, who tells the story, her siblings John, Suzy and Rob, and her parents, Victoria and Wallace. The book opens up with a death in the family, of Uncle Hal, who has left behind a ten-year-old girl, Maggie. Overview. Book one of the Austin Family Chronicles, an award-winning young adult series from Madeleine L’Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time, about a girl who experiences the difficulties and joys of growing up. “Beautifully written, with integrity and warmth, and young people are bound to identify with the characters, each a person in his own right, and to read absorbed from first page to last. Meet the Austins is a young adult fiction novel by American author Madeleine L’Engle. First published in , it draws loosely from L’Engle’s own life, following the protagonist Vicky Austin through a multitude of short vignettes as she comes of age in a tumultuous family.
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