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Description

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 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.

About the Author

Madeleine L'Engle lives in New York City and is the author of the following books published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux: The Moon by Night (1963), The Arm of the Starfish (1965), The Young Unicorns (1968), Lines Scribbled on an Envelope and Other Poems (1969), Dance in the Desert (1969), A Wind in the Door (1973), Dragons in the Waters (1976), and A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978). Her adult books for FSG are: The Love Letters (1966), The Other Side of the Sun (1971), A Circle of Quiet (1972), and The Summer of the Great-grandmother (1974).