Meet the Austins Author:Madeleine L'Engle Into the warm, happy lives of the six Austins steps young Maggie Hamilton, orphaned by the sudden death of her father. Maggy is petulant and spoiled; she cannot understand the unassuming, fun-loving ways of the Austins. Nor can the Austins understand Maggy, who brings into their gay, affectionate world all the sullenness, the insolence, the stor... more »miness of her misery. The events that bring Maggy and the Austins together are filled with the tangled emotions of adolescence. And when Maggy finally does come to love and accept the Austins- and they, her- she has found a fmaily as tender, as full of sheer delight, as close-knit as the dream locked in all our hearts. In MEET THE AUSTINS, Madeleine L'Engle beautifully puts to paper the unspoken thoughts, the strong and unseen fibers that make a happy family so precious and firm a part of one's life.« less