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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I don’t like how complicated they made this book… the wording is very odd and confusing…
My favorite book when I was 10.
not to be missed!
CLASSIC!
Great book for all ages!
I really liked this book
I just never got this book. Tried to read two or three times over my lifetime and have never been able to finish it. I know it’s a classic, but …
Excellent award winning book for intermediate (4-6) grades.
I first read A Wrinkle in Time in 1967 when I was 12. It was my first ‘science-fiction’ book where I learned about tesseracts, ‘space’ travel and that stars are conscious beings. At the time and for many subsequent years I thought that this last idea was ‘made up,’ but it turns out that there may very well be some truth to the probability that …
I think it is good
Despite a movie long in the making, and an earlier TV adaptation, nothing has been able to live up to L’Engle’s coming of age novel itself.
Fascinating. Read it right after it came out. Opened up a whole new world.
i really like this book i read these book in my 6th grade class then we watch the movie before cristmas break and i can say i really reccomand this book if you watch the movie its a little different then the book but this is one of my fav books in 2019 that i have read
I read this book for a novel study and it is a very good read for younger readers. My class finished this book when the movie came out and all of the boys in my class were pissed that they didn’t kiss in the end. They claimed it was inaccurate! It was very funny. I definitely recommend reading this not as a novel study.
I never read this story as a child, but when my oldest daughter became interested in the movie, I figured we could also read the book. Big mistake.
I felt the descriptions in the book dragged on forever, leaving so many lulls in the actual plot that finishing it became forced. My nine-year-old at the time asked if we could stop reading it. I …
Great children’s book. I read it with my sixth graders.
Great read, loved the characters. I loved the science in the book.
In 4th grade, our teacher Mrs. Welch, read most of this book to us. I say most because she died midway through the school year and the book. To me she had always seemed to be what I thought Mrs. Whatsit looked like. Our class was devastated. We had several substitutes that finished up the year so much of the story was lost through different …
My all-time favorite!! A modern day classic.