L'Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle In Time. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1962.
ISBN: 0-374-38613-7; $17.00 US; Hardcover.
AWARDS/HONORS/REVIEWS
Newbery Medal Winner, 1963
Sequoyah Book Award, 1963
Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, 1965
Hans Christian Andersen Award-Runner up
ALA Notable Children's Book
ANNOTATION:
Awkward Meg Murry, her kid brother Charles Wallace, and the most popular boy in school, Calvin O'Keefe, set out on a journey through time and space to save her father, and ultimately planet Earth, from the forces of evil.
BOOKTALK:
Meg Murry isn't a normal teenage girl. Despite being smart, she can't focus in school and might have to drop down to the bottom of her class. Her baby brother, Charles Wallace, appears to be an idiot to the rest of the world, yet to her he talks as if he is a hundred years old. And then there is the part about her father having disappeared a year ago after doing a top secret project for the government.
Now things are starting to get even more weird! Calvin O'Keefe, the most popular boy in school shows up outside their house and miraculously can understand what Charles Wallace is talking about. And then three strange women, Mrs. Who, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Which, magically appear at the Murry's house and speak one word that transforms the lives of the Murry's forever: tesseract.
With that one word, Meg's life is about to change forever. A dark shadow threatens not only the safety of her father, but the entire solar system as well, unless Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin can use their strengths and weaknesses to battle an unknown enemy. Be whisked off to other planets and follow an incredible journey through A Wrinkle in Time!
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