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Summary: Spell-Binding
Review: This book is very imaginitive and thought-provoking. It gives all the imagination a well-written book would be expected to have. Only better. It is a creative collage of thoughts and actions. It is original and, I think, will soon become a classic.
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Summary: Charles Wallace sends Meg on another journey through Fantasy
Review: In the exciting sequel to A Wrinkle in Time, Meg Murry's younger and favorite brother, Charles Wallace gets sick. Mrs. Murry, a scientist claims that his chromosomes have a defect and that if not treated immediately, he will die. Meg goes on another journey in order to save Charles's life. I will not spoil the end for any of you, so buy it now from amazon.com and enjoy yourself!
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Summary: As good as A Wrinkle in Time and that is saying a mothful.
Review: If you read a wrinkle in time, you already love these characters. But if you think you know all there is to know about them you are WRONG. This is a worthy companion to A Wrinkle in Time and that is about the biggest complimant I can pay to a book. Please read this book, if only to excercise your imagination
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Summary: Good reading & good morality play
Review: This book is very good for all ages. For adolescents to adults it's an easy, entertaining book. For children to adolescents, it's an entertaining book which also has allegorical properties. The other books in this series are also very good. I consider this entire series a "must read" for children, much in the same way some people say C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narinia are a "must read."
This series (and this book in particular) are very reminiscent of the Chronicles of Narnia, I think. I highly reccommend both series. If you enjoy "curling up with a good book" the way I do, I think you'll enjoy this book and the rest of the books in this series.
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Summary: I enjoy the book very much.
Review: Madeleine L'Engle is a wonderful author. I enjoy all of Madeleines' books on the Murry family. A Wind In The Door is a beautiful continuation of the Murry family story. A Wind In The Door is about Charles Wallace getting sick. Meg, Calvin, Mr.Jenkins and Charles Wallace have to enter Charles Wallaces' body in order to save him. A few of the delightful new characters in the story are Proginoskes, Blajeny, Sporos and Senex. The book will intriuge you at every turn, and if you don't understand the book in the beginning, you will certainly understand by the end
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Summary: A vintage L'Engle blend of science and spirituality.
Review: In the first of the "Kairos" books, "A Wrinkle in Time", Madeleine L'Engle took Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, and Calvin O'Keefe on a quest through the macrocosm of time and space. In this second book, "A Wind in the Door", she adds an even deeper dimension to her fictional world--which she makes as real to us as our world, sometimes even more real--by sending them on a journey into the microcosm of the human body. How is it possible for a human being to enter a human body, you may ask, as did the still-irritable, yet still-lovable, Meg Murry. In a special class that teaches universal truths, rather than the imports and exports of Nicaragua, Meg, Calvin, Mr. Jenkins, and the also-human readers will meet a cherubim who has memorized the names of the stars . . . speak to a farandola inside one of Charles Wallace's cells . . . watch the birth of a star "small" enough to hold in a human hand . . . and ultimately learn that size, number, order, and anything that can be measured does not matter. What do matter are names, for "He knows them all by name" . . . even the little stars so far away from inhabited planets that only those who see without eyes know their names. The loss of a star is no more and no less tragic to the Universe than the death of a young boy. Everything we does matters. Everything we touch sends ripples into the cosmos--the cosmos within and the cosmos without. This time, the mission is to save Charles Wallace's life. Annihilators called the Echthroi want to X him, as they want to X everything else in the Universe. As the book's characters were bound to fight them in the story, we are bound to fight them in real life. This is adventure on a grand scale! Though the literary critic in me sees a lot of less-than-perfect elements in this novel, I still gave "A Wind in the Door" five stars because what matters most about it is its message. L'Engle's plot twists and fictional inventions make even me raise my eyebrows a few times, but her passion never fails to captivate me. Without fail, it draws me into a world too real to be imaginary and gives me faith in my own world.
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Summary: Does it live up to the legand?
Review: I read and loved A Wrinkle In Time, so naturally I wanted to read the sequels. Perhaps I was dumb to expect A Wind in the Door to live up to its predecessor, but nonetheless, I was certainly dissatisfied with this book. It dragged. And dragged. And dragged. Only twice was I mildly interested while reading.
I wouldn't recommend this after reading AWRIT. Enjoy the prequel and keep it that way.
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Summary: my favorite!
Review: This has to be my personal favorite book of all time. I know a lot of kids were first introduced to Madeleine L'Engle's writing because "A Wrinkle In Time" used to be on the 5th or 6th grade reading lists, but I never read any of her writing until I was in high school. It's probably a good thing, too, because the majority of kids I knew who read it at that age were not able to enjoy it because the concepts were completely over their heads. I have college friends who were English majors that wrote thesis papers on L'Engle's books, so...
Back to my point - "A Wind In the Door" is my favorite because of the ideals of unconditional love and proaction it favors. Not to mention it's just plain GOOD science fiction. L'Engle really does her research when it comes to all the microbiology and astrophysics and whatnot she writes about. Even if you're not into science fiction, the scientific jargon doesn't bog down the story - there's so much more beyond all that. Some of my favorite parts are when Meg is faced with really difficult decisions and the story will just go on for a whole chapter describing her internal struggle and all the emotions she is going through. It really tugs on my heart-strings.
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Summary: A Wind in the Door
Review: The Wind In The Door is a great read for anyone who loves to read fantasy books with a touch of science. Madeline L'Engle has done it again, writing the second book in the Wrinkle In Time Series.
In the story, Meg Murry(the main character) and her friend Calvin O'Keefe go on a journey to save Meg's younger brother(Charles Wallace)from a strange sickness, thought to be caused by Echthroi(evil beings)in Charles Wallace's mitochondria(energy cells). They travel through space to find answers, meeting a Cherubim(a creature with wings and many eyes)who follows and helps them on their journey.
This book is a great book because it combines fantasy with reality. The descriptions of the scenes in the book are detailed, it is almost like the reader is the character.
Reading The Wind In The Door will leave you searching for more.
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Summary: I liked A Wrinkle in Time better
Review: A Wind in the Door just did not match the adventure and wording that A Wrinkle in Time did. The plot was that Meg (the main character), Charles Wallace(Meg's younger brother), and Calvin (Meg's "close friend") stumble onto a huge problem with the principal of the school and a "drive of dragons" and even the evil of absolute nothingness. Although I liked the plot and all, I had a hard time understanding it and picturing what was going on. I liked most of the characters and the lands they go to were interesting but I still think that if it was just a bit easier to read I would have enjoyed it more and sometimes having characters that are so smart makes me feel stupid.
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