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Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L'Engle(1918-2007)
Madeleine L’Engle wrote more than sixty books for all ages. In 1998 she won the Margaret A. Edwards award for her lifetime contribution to writing for teens. She has also worked as an actress — she played Dr. Charles Tyler in the soap opera All My Children. Here is her website.
The Time Quintet

The Time Quintet — (1962-1989)  Young adult. A Wrinkle in Time won the Newbery Medal. Publisher: 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.

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A Wrinkle In Time: First SF novel for children

A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle

First published in 1962, Madeleine L'Engle's classic book (along with its subsequent sequels) remains one of the greats of children's literature, and it is a testimony to her skill that she can get away with using the line "it was a dark and stormy night" as her opening sentence. Widely considered the first science fiction novel written for children, A Wrinkle in Time is a must for any serious young reader's bookshelf.

Margaret "Meg" Murry is a rather despondent child: her father is missing, she's having trouble at school and her little brother Charles Wallace is often gossiped about in the community for being "strange." This is not entirely untrue: after being silent for much of his first four years, Charles Wallace suddenly began speaking in complete and complex sentences when he turned five. Unfortunately, by this stage his father was not around t... Read More

October 14th, 2007. ´s rating: | | | SFF Reviews | no comments
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A Wrinkle In Time: Timeless themes

A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle

There’s always a danger when you go back and reread a favorite story from childhood. All too often treasured books don’t live up the memories you have of them. A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle is not one of those books. I hadn’t read about the adventures of the Murry family in almost two decades, but was instantly transported on a fantastical journey by Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin as they go searching for Mr. Murry, who was working for the government on classified research, but disappeared one day and hasn’t been heard from in years.

A Wrinkle In Time, originally published in 1962, is a little dated in some of the details (does any YA reader today remember when computers used to fill up a room?) but the themes that the book deals with — good versus evil, conformity versus individualism, and the ... Read More

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Madeleine L'Engle Time Quintet 1. A Wrinkle in Time (1962) 2. A Wind in the Door (1973) 3. A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978) 4. Many Waters (1986) 5. An Acceptable Time (1989)

young adult fantasy book reviews Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle in TimeA Wrinkle In Time blew my mind many times when I was a kid — I read it several times. it’s one of the reasons I started reading SFF. —Kat Hooper

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