It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.
“Wild nights are my glory,” the unearthly stranger told them. “I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I’ll be on my way. Speaking of … Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.”
A tesseract (in case the reader doesn’t know) is a wrinkle in time. To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Miss L’Engle’s unusual book. A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O’Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school). They are in search of Meg’s father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.
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Read to get ready to see the movie, can’t wait to see how it compares. I was not expecting the story to be so dark have had this book for 20+ years but never read it.
I DID NOT READ THIS!!
One of my favorite books ever I could read it over and over again.
I remember reading this series as a kid and loving it. I wonder if it will have the same appeal today…
I found this book in the school library over 60 years ago while in the third grade. The name of the book piqued my interest. How could there be a wrinkle in time? Once I began reading I was hooked. There are so many disguised concepts presented in the telling of the story that humans have grappled with since the beginning of time. It certainly …
It’s a classic that should not be forgotten
My favorite book as a child!
I love this book! I’ve used this book in my classroom. Great discussion fodder! Students had to use their imagination, some didn’t know they had! The book has fabulous descriptions, great focus on human feelings and the good vs evil conflict that drives the novel.
Skip the movie. Read the book!
I was required to read this for school, and it was boring. Wouldn’t recommend…
This book has to be my favorite book of all time! I love the way the characters where portrayed and the way this was written. I absolutely recommend that you read this book.
I love this book! I don’t think they will ever make a movie worthy of it, but I think that this is a book everyone should read multiple times. Every reread bring fresh insight. Its a book that grows with you in a way that is truly magical. Happy Reading!
One of my all time favorites. Found it as a kid, and still reread it as an adult.
This is the book that got me totally hooked on science fiction/fantasy back in the early 60’s
One of my favourite books as a kid which I still read as an adult from time to time. This is how it’s done. How you write a timeless classic. I highly recommend you read it at least once in your life.
Read and re-read since I was quite young, my fondness only grows. Excellent characters with brilliant minds and quirky lives adventure to a place that looks much like our own future – which is the point. Meg was a particular gift to me when I was young, awkward, too smart and too sensitive for my own good. She gave me hope then. The whole series …
This is one of those books I’ve over and over.
This was my gateway to sci-fi and fantasy back in middle school. Until this book, I had no idea that those genres existed in literary form. I was blown away. And I felt wistful and wondered if there were more books like it. And then the friend who let me AWIT showed me just how much I was missing out on. I will always have a soft spot for this …
Great
Should be a in every child’s library. It was before J.K Rowling but just as fascinating. A peek into another world.