Polly O'Keefe The Arm of the Starfish, Book 1, (Paperback)

from raizel

A teenager must choose which of two groups of people to trust, but it's easy for the reader to decide. There is a quote from and discussion about "Two Tramps in Mudtime" by Robert Frost. The phrase, Mortal Stakes, used by Robert Parker as a title for one of his Spencer books, is in it: "Only wher...

from satyridae

Hokey? Yes. Stiffly unrealistic dialogue? Yes. Unbelievable characters? Yes. Credulity-straining plot? Yes. Annoying spelling of Poly? Yes. Is it a wonderful book that transcends all the limitations? Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Again, it's the joy L'Engle evokes that hooks me. Her world, a...

from christine3236

All three of the newly-released "Poly series" books are about the O'Keefe family. Mom and Dad are scientifically oriented, although mom has many children and little time for her interests in mathmatics. In this novel, Dad is conducting very secret experiments on starfish having to do with their a...

from tjsjohanna

This story illustrates quite well the power that the first impression has. Adam is put in the terrible position of trying to figure out who is telling the truth - something that I never had any problem with in the story because the bad guys are just obviously bad. But because the bad guys approac...

from davegregg

Excellent book! For the first almost-quarter of the book, I thought the story was hackneyed and unimaginative, but as I discovered later, the way-too-coincidental "accidents" that occur early on weren't at all coincidental, and the seemingly-improbable were provided truly plausible and satisfying...