Acceptable Time

An Acceptable Time
... An Acceptable Time is a 1989 young adult science fiction novel by Madeleine L'Engle, the last of her books to feature Polyhymnia O'Keefe, better known as Poly (The Arm of the Starfish, Dragons in the Waters ... Marketed as part of the author's Time Quintet (the other four volumes of which are called the Time Quartet), An Acceptable Time connects Polly's adventures with those of her parents, Meg. 6913, "But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Lord, at an acceptable time." ...

An Acceptable Time - Series Notes
... Alex Murry, were first introduced in A Wrinkle in Time, the first book in the Time Quartet, but were not initially given first names ... A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door and A Swiftly Tilting Planet are primarily about Polly's mother, Meg Murry (later Meg Murry O'Keefe) in her teen years and young ... The other volume in the Time Quartet, Many Waters, is about Polly's other uncles on her mother's side, Sandy and Dennys Murry ...

A Swiftly Tilting Planet - Series
... This is the third book of the Time Quartet, preceded by, in chronological order, A Wrinkle in Time (1962) and A Wind in the Door (1973) ... These four books and An Acceptable Time (1989) are often referred to as the Time Quintet ... An Acceptable Time takes place a generation after A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and is part of the Polly O'Keefe series of books ...