Many Waters Author:Madeleine L'Engle Sandy and Dennys have always felt they were the ordinary ones in their family of geniuses. Mother is a scientist, Father experiments with space and time travel, Meg is a mathematical whiz, and Charles Wallace is a six-year-old genius. Now, for the first time, Sandy and Dennys find themselves involved in a fantastic adventure. — They have been ... more »thrown back in time to a desert land filled with mythical beasts and humans, barely four feet tall. There they meet Noah, who is starting to build a huge boat. He warns them that "many waters" are coming to the desert...« less