A Wrinkle in Time
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 be on my way. Speaking of way, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract".
Meg's father had been experimenting with this fifth dimension of time travel when he mysteriously disappeared. Now the time has come for Meg, her friend Calvin, and Charles Wallace to rescue him. But can they outwit the forces of evil they will encounter on their heart-stopping journey through space?
The book won a Newbery Medal (1963), Sequoyah Book Award (1965), and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
About the Time Quintet Series
Books in series order
- 1.A Wrinkle in Time(1962)
- 2.A Wind in the Door(1973)
- 3.A Swiftly Tilting Planet(1978)
- 4.Many Waters(1986)
- 5.An Acceptable Time(1989)
Reading age: 10+ years
This series should be read in order.
'A Wrinkle in Time' is one of the most significant novels of our time. This fabulous, ground-breaking science-fiction and fantasy story is the first of five in the 'Time Quintet' series about the Murry family. The remaining four books in the series are: 'A Wind in the Door'- When Charles Wallace falls ill, Meg, Calvin, and their teacher, Mr. Jenkins, must travel inside C.W. to make him well, and save the universe from the evil Echthros. 'A Swiftly Tilting Planet' - The Murry and O'Keefe families enlist the help of the unicorn, Gaudior, to save the world from imminent nuclear war. 'Many Waters' - Meg Murry, now in college, time travels with her twin brothers, Sandy and Dennys, to a desert oasis that is embroiled in war. 'An Acceptable Time' - Polly O'Keefe wanders into a time 3,000 years before her own.