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A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

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Series: The Time Quintet (1)

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Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
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Independent Reading Level: 5th Grade
Awards/Honors: Newbery Medal ( )
  Taylorsapp | May 4, 2023 |
Independent Reading Level: Grades 5-7
Awards: John Newbery Medal (1963)
  KayleeWhitley | May 2, 2023 |
Independent Reading Level: Grade 4
Awards: Newbery Medal
  PaigeDavison | Apr 29, 2023 |
A Wrinkle in Time is mind boggling. Not only a great story, but a confusing one. Confusing in a good way, a way that makes your brain try to think outside of it's limits. The whole multi-dimension, just the way the story is put together is so professionally done, you can't help but wonder if it foreshadows future events or possibilities. I also loved how it portrayed the child (I believe his name was Charles) as the genius in the story, because a child's mind is truly extraordinary, the way they imagine the world around them. ( )
  HannahRenea | Apr 25, 2023 |
I read this book as it is often on reading lists and I wanted to find out what it was about. It started and finished well but my interest waned a bit in the middle. I would say it was 3.5 out of 5. Definitely worth reading but not perhaps as good as I thought it might be. ( )
  LisaBergin | Apr 12, 2023 |
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Barrett, PeterCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Davis, HopeNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Canonical title
A Wrinkle in Time
Original title
A Wrinkle in Time
Alternative titles
Original publication date
1962-01-01
People/Characters
Margaret "Meg" Murry
Charles Wallace Murry
Calvin O'Keefe
Aunt Beast
Mrs Who
Important places
New England, USA
Earth
Uriel (planet)
Ixchel (planet)
Orion's Belt
Important events
Related movies
A Wrinkle in Time (2003 | IMDb)
A Wrinkle in Time (2009 | IMDb)
A Wrinkle in Time (2018 | IMDb)
Awards and honors
Newbery Medal (1963)
Sequoyah Book Award (Children's, 1965)
Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1965)
A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book (1963)
ALA 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000 (22)
Epigraph
Dedication
For Charles Wadsworth Camp and Wallace Collin Franklin
First words
It was a dark and stormy night.
Quotations
"The tesseract--" Mrs. Murry whispered. "What did she mean? How could she have known?" [p.27]
Well, the fifth dimension's a tesseract...In other words, to put it into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. [p.75]
“Maybe I don’t like being different,” Meg said. “but I don’t want to be like everybody else, either.”
“You mean you’re comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it?”

“Yes.” Mrs. Whatsit said. “You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.”
The middle beast, a tremor of trepidation in his words, said "You aren't from a dark planet, are you?"
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Vursell, Hal
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Original language
English
Canonical DDC/MDS
813.54
Canonical LCC
PZ7.L5385
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Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
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Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace leave Earth in search of Meg's father, Mr. Murry. Mr. Murry is a scientist who has been missing since the birth of Charles Wallace, Meg's baby brother. Mrs. Which, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Whatsit, however, assist the children in their journey by helping them to tesseract or wrinkle in time. They soon discover that their father has been detained by IT. IT tries to transform people into mindless robots. Will they be able to overpower IT? Will they be able to save their father?
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813.54Literature › English (North America) › American fiction › 20th Century › 1945-1999

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PZ7.L5385Language and Literature › Fiction and juvenile belles lettres › Fiction and juvenile belles lettres › Juvenile belles lettres

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