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  • A wrinkle in time

  • An imaginative, YA, sci-fi tale. I remember reading this as a child too.

    

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  • Read the whole series in 7th grade

    

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  • Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.

    

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Father is missing!  His top secret job as a physicist for the government has taken him away--but where?--and how?  Meg and her younger brother, Charles Wallace, set out with their friend Calvin on an exciting adventure through time and space to search for him.  With the help of the mysterious Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which, the youngsters learn to expect the unexpected as they move in the fifth dimension known as the "tesseract".

With this award-winning story, Madeline L'Engle has captivated millions of readers throughout the world.  Her universal themes of courage, perseverance, and love are interwoven with imagination and suspense.  A Wrinkle in Time, published in 1962, won the distinguished Newbery Medal for children's literature in 1963.

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