A Wrinkle In Time

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Summary: Favorite!
Review: This is an amazing book. I normally hate science fiction books, but this moved me very much. meg Murry is living in a strange family time. She is not very great at school, not very popular, and her dad is gone on some mission for space. To make matters worse, her brother Charles Wallace is thought strange around the town. One stormy night while Charles, Meg, and her scientist mother are drinking cocoa, a dark figure appears in the door. This is the biginning of a marvelous adventure, which Charles, Meg, and Calvin, a new friend, embark on. Their goal is to find Mr. Murry. This book shows you the power of love and what it can do.

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Summary: Awesome!
Review: I read this book about a year ago and it is wonderful! I have been continuing with her sequals, they are the best books! I'm only 12 but i am not stopping! Recommended Very HIGHLY!

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Summary: A Cuisinart of Genres
Review: Don't get me wrong, when I read *A Wrinkle in Time* as a misfit 11 year old, I wanted to climb into this book and wrap it around me for protection. Meg's epic journey to Camazotz to rescue her father from the ur-Evil "It" seemed to rescue me, if only temporarily, from the agonies of on-coming adolescence. True, Meg, in her journey, has the help of her genius-misfit brother, Charles Wallace, as well as the genius-athlete-misfit Calvin, and the assorted semi-guardian angels, Mrs. Who, Mrs. What, and Mrs. Which. This book, however, makes redemption from the awkwardness of existence seem possible.

This does not stop *A Wrinkle in Time* from being somewhat of a generic mish-mash. L'Engle's work has a dash of Orwell's *1984* mixed with a splash of C.S. Lewis' allegory. She has also tossed in space-time mechanisms suitable for science fiction, three fairy tale witches who segue into being messenger's from God, a couple of inhabited planets, a reluctant oracle, and a giant pulsating brain. And yet, somehow, L'Engle has managed to reach the "process" button on the cuisinart: what comes out is an excellent nutritious whole, not merely mashed leftovers.

Admittedly, even that whole has awkward moments. The abrupt mentions of God make me squirm now as much as they did when I was 11, and Mrs. Murray's lab, with its bunsen burner, is clearly dated, as is some of the dialogue (does anyone have "dreamboat" eyes anymore?). The underlying angsts this book helps to alleviate, however, are not subject to time. And when someone throws a lifeline, the drowning sojourner is best advised to catch hold, and examine the interesting weave of the rope later.

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Summary: Elementary-school favorite
Review: This is one of those novels that has enough different locales and situations to keep anyone glued onto its pages. The idea of the "tesseract" is truly interesting, and the rest of the novel isn't anything to blow your nose at either. My only complaint is that the way they end up freeing Charles Wallace from "IT" at the end is really cliched and tiresome, the kind of thing you'd see in a Disney Channel movie. It's not enough to ruin the rest of the novel, though, and I'd still give it an easy 5 stars.

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Summary: A Great Book!
Review: Hands down, this is the best book in the series. The others, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and others that I can't remember the name of just aren't as good. For example, Calvin is not in one of them, and one is all about Meg's older brothers. I like the first book a lot. I've read it countless times, and even did an oral report on it for the "favorite book" project in sixth grade. It has a little bit of everything. If you like books at all, you will love A Wrinkle in Time.

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Summary: Review of "A Wrinkle in Time"
Review: With apologies to those who read this book as children andloved it, I found it tiresome. The author appears to be trying veryhard to instill proper values in young readers. The "good" characters are unfailingly polite and considerate. The "Miss Manners" tone becomes so obtrusive at times that it's bothersome. Along similar lines, several of the book's sympathetic characters are child prodigies who go around spouting multisyllabic words and generally showing off their brilliance. Children who read the book are evidently supposed to identify with these characters and emulate them, while absorbing lots of big impressive words. I can think of several "adult" science fiction/fantasy authors I enjoyed as a child, whom I would recommend much more highly for children than L'engle: Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, and J. R. R. Tolkien, among others.

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Summary: Review of "A Wrinkle In Time"
Review: I loved this book because it was a combination of sciencefiction and fantasy, two cool things. My classmates and I even did anonline report on it...

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Summary: Enduring Excellence
Review: I first read this in the fifth grade and have reread it almost every year since(and that's been 15+ years). Meg and Charles Wallace are my close friends. The Mrs. W's still make me smile. Ms. L'Engle's masterful writing style is wonderful. She weaves her stories around you with the perfect mix of science, adventure, and even some romance. I highly recommend all of her Time Quartet.

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Summary: Amazing and well written
Review: In a library you will find this book under "science-fiction", but I would hardly call it that. It's mostly an adventure, with a mix of romance and science-fiction, space and time travel to be exact.I read this book when I was 10 years old and read it again a month ago-I'm now almost 13. It's one of the most creative and imaginitive pieces of literature I have come across in my years of reading. I have to say it's one of my all time favorite books, and I have reccommended it to all of my friends. All who read it will thouroughly enjoy and appreciate this tragic and romantic story. I loved this book so much from the beginning that I could not stop reading and finished it in less than 2 days. I highly reccomend it to anyone and everyone who can read and is above the age of 8, or is a highly intelligent and sophisticated child. I also strongly reccommend "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, and the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.

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Summary: An essential book
Review: I am prompted to write this by the fact that the book has been given less than five stars, a serious injustice. As a child I loved it; it is wonderful read-aloud, perfect for making any child feel better about him/herself. As a parent I know better the values being suggested, and they are very difficult to teach and fundamental to understanding and appreciating one's place in the world. This is not a "fantasy" book, nor a classic in the sense that it is one of Harold Bloom's type of required books--it is simply a book that expresses perfectly what it is to be a child, to be unsure of one's powers and yet possessing so many strengths of which one is unaware until tested. Everyone would enjoy it.