A Wrinkle in Time

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Summary: Really good!!
Review: I read this a long time ago, but it's still really good! Read it! Anyway, that's not my real point.

Would all those people who are complaining about the "lack of scientific substance" stop?!?!?! This isn't supposed to be a scientific journal! It's a NOVEL! What do novels do? Tell stories! NOT give scientific facts.

So, with that aside, I recommend this book to everyone.

Have fun reading!

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Summary: A Wrinkle in Time
Review: Meg Murry has not had the best life according to her. She lives at home with her mother and three brothers. Her father, who is a scientist, that has been studying the fifth demension and time travel, has been gone on a secret government mission for four years. One day Meg, her five year old brother Charles Wallace, and her friend Calvin go for a walk in the woods. On the way they meet three mysterious ladies named Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which, and Mrs. Whatsit. The ladies take the children on a quest to find their father. They travel through time and space by wrinkles or tesseracts to the planet Camazotz where their father has been taken prisoner. They must battle the forces of darkness that are turning the universe into nothing. During their travels the children must battle the evil being IT, which has taken their father captive. The IT is described in the book as a disembodied brain who wants people to become a part of Camazotz, but in order to do so they must first give up their freedom. The children must learn to rely on their individual strengths as well as each others in order to save their father and themselves.
This book takes you on a fun and exciting adventure as the children seek to find the person that is so important to them, their father. This book teachs a great lesson about seeking inside yourself for the things that are most important in life. Family is also a very important part to this story. It teaches that sometimes people will go to the absolute limit in order to protect each other. This is a wonderful book and I would recommend it to readers both young and old.

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Summary: This Book Definitely Deserved the Newberry Medal
Review: Meg Murry is miserable. She's an outcast of sorts at her highschool, her five-year-old brother, Charles Wallace, is a genius, and worst of all, her scientist father is gone on what seems to be a dangerous and mysterious mission in space. But help for her father comes in a very unlikely way. Charles Wallace meets three mysterious "witches" (Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which, and Mrs. Whatsit) who soon have Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe (a newly-found friend of Meg's) journeying through space on a treacherous quest to save her Mr. Murry. After stopping for rest on a breathtakingly beautiful planet during their travels through the galaxy, Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace find themselves on Camazotz, a planet that has succumbed to the "Dark Thing" (evil). And their quest for Mr. Murry becomes increasingly difficult as they realize the incredible evil they are fighting..."A Wrinkle in Time" is definitely the best fantasy book I have ever read. Madeleine L'Engle's sheer imagination is unrivaled, and her descriptions of the various planets the characters travel to are wonderfully...well, descriptive!...and it really seems like L'Engle's been there. But this book is more than just a meaningless yet prettily written fantasy. L'Engle's unique and moving thoughts on good and evil, as well as our responsibility towards fighting evil are readily apparent in this book. Some very profound things are said, and some very profound concepts are embedded where you'd least expect them to be in this novel. For a treat for your imagination and food for thought, just read "A Wrinkle In Time"!