290V: Transcendental Meditation (Solved)

I just read about your bookstore and the Book Stumper in today’s New York Times. Amazing! And I have a book: written perhaps in the 1970s or early 1980s, it concerned two kids, an old house, and a crystal or other glass ball on a pedestal in the yard of an old house, and the kids used transcendental meditation to perhaps travel into the ball, maybe solve a crime or something.

11 thoughts on “290V: Transcendental Meditation (Solved)

    1. Katherine

      There are 3 kids in A Wrinkle in Time. I remember loving The Diamond in the Window and now need to find it and reread it because I remember it this way that the original poster describes.

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  1. Ellen T.

    Are you thinking of The Diamond in the Window by Jane Langton? It’s not exactly as you describe, but they did have a glass globe on their lawn and it’ not TM, but the characters’ uncle is a Transcendentalist philosopher a la Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thoreau.

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    1. Evelyn

      OMG that might be the one! I just read a few snippets that they have on Google Books and I think it’s familiar!! This is like magic! Thank you so much!! I’ve got to get that book! I think I read The Fledgling too, bc that looks vaguely familiar as well.

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      1. Ellen T.

        Yay! These were among my favorite books growing up in Massachusetts. Check out the Swing in the Summerhouse and The Astonishing Stereoscope, too!

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  2. Susan Wagenhals

    There is a whole series of Jane Langton books. Diamond in the Window, Swing in the Summerhouse, check Amazon for the others. She is still alive and still writing.

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    1. Evelyn

      Thank you so much–the more I look, the more I’m convinced that this is the book. Terrific! 🙂

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