A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
205 pages
Meg Murry and her family receive a surprise visit from an unearthly stranger out of another dimension in time.
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Sam’s review:
This year is the 50th Anniversary of the publication of A Wrinkle in Time, a classic that won the Newbery Award in 1962. Being about time and time travel is fitting because the book was way ahead of its time. Meg Murray is a young woman plagued by faults – stubbornness, a quick temper, and an inferiority complex. She also happens to be a math genius and the big sister of the brilliant young Charles Wallace and the normal, well-adjusted twins, Sandy and Dennys. Their mother, a scientist, cooks dinner in her lab. Their father has been missing after pursuing a secret mission for the government. Charles Wallace, Meg, their neighbor Calvin (whose perspective on Meg is quite different from how she sees herself) are summoned to rescue their father, but because he is on a dark planet on the other side of a universe, they must travel through a tesseract, a wrinkle in time. Three eccentric old women, who are actually supernatural beings, help them get to the planet but cannot help them once they arrive. The three children must rely on themselves as they face impossible dangers. Everything about this book works so well – the characters, the plot, the ideas. It’s a moving and powerful classic.