A Wrinkle in Time

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Everyone in town thinks Meg Murry is volatile and dull-witted, and that her younger brother, Charles Wallace, is dumb. People are also saying that their physicist father has run off and left their brilliant scientist mother. Spurred on by these rumors and an unearthly stranger, the tesseract-touting Mrs Whatsit, Meg and Charles Wallace and their new friend Calvin O'Keefe embark on a perilous quest through space to find their father. In doing so, they must travel behind the shadow of an evil power that is darkening the cosmos, one planet at a time. This is no superhero tale, nor is it science fiction, although it shares elements of both. The travelers must rely on their individual and collective strengths, delving deep within themselves to find answers.

A well-loved classic and 1963 Newbery Medal winner, Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time is sophisticated in concept yet warm in tone, with mystery and love coursing through its pages. Meg's shattering, yet ultimately freeing, discovery that her father is not omnipotent provides a satisfying coming-of-age element. Readers will feel a sense of power as they travel with these three children, challenging concepts of time, space, and the triumph of good over evil. The companion books in the Time quartet, continuing the adventures of the Murry family, are A Wind in the Door; A Swiftly Tilting Planet, which won the American Book Award; and Many Waters. Every young reader should experience L'Engle's captivating, occasionally life-changing contributions to children's literature. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter

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This special edition of A Wrinkle in Time includes a new essay that explores the science behind the fantasy.
Rediscover one of the most beloved children's books of all time: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle:

Meg Murray, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their mother are having a midnight snack on a dark and stormy night when an unearthly stranger appears at their door. He claims to have been blown off course, and goes on to tell them that there is such a thing as a "tesseract," which, if you didn't know, is a wrinkle in time.

Meg's father had been experimenting with time-travel when he suddenly disappeared. Will Meg, Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin outwit the forces of evil as they search through space for their father?

Customer Reviews:

Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03

A book for children, but not too bad for that. A bored girl, her brothers and others get mixed up in an adventure across the space-time continuum by way of some nifty tesseract tricks.

When a strange older woman comes visiting they set off to find the father of all these children, who is a prisoner of one of your standard supervillains, a giant disembodied telepathic brain.

Such a good book.......2007-05-04

This has been one of my all-time favorite books since I first read it as a girl. It is excellent reading for elementary school children, but also fun for adults. Highly recommended!

A Wrinkle in Time.......2007-04-25

Everyone in the Murray household is impatiently awaiting the father's return. He had mysteriously disappeared while experimenting with 5th dimension time traveling. Both Mr. and Mrs. Murray are intelligent scientists. The book is about how two of their four children and their friend travel light years through time to save their father. Meg, the oldest and only sister in the family, finds it difficult to conceal her anxiety for her father. To support her and get her through life, she spends a lot of time with her brother, Charles Wallace. The two of them always had a tenacious bond. Charles Wallace is very bright, but is inexplicably known as the "dumb baby brother." Sandy and Dennys are twins at ten years old. Meg once overheard, "The twin brothers seem to be nice, regular children, but that unattractive girl and the baby boy certainly aren't all there."
Meg also has a friend named Calvin O'Keefe. He is a smart, popular basketball player a couple of grades above Meg. He and three witches help Meg and Charles Wallace try to find their father. These witches' names are Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which. They are all helpful and unique in their own ways. Maybe a little too unique. Are they smart enough to keep the three children unharmed?
With these interesting characters and a page-turning plot, there's no way you can miss this Newbery Medal book! As you are reading, you come up with questions such as, what does "tesseract" mean? Or, Will everyone come home safely? How does Meg learn to overcome her weakness to save her brother? Also, ask more questions when you read A Wrinkle in Time's sequel, A Wind in the Door and the rest of the series. [...].

A Wrinkle in Time Review.......2007-03-16

The Murrys are often gossiped about since the disappearance of Mr.Murry whom disappeared when Charels Wallace was just a baby (Charles Wallace is the youngest of four children).Charels Wallace is a unique boy and many people think he is a dumb and never learned how to talk when he is really in a way a genius .Margret Murry (Meg) is Charles Wallace's older sister and is the youngest of the four Murry children. Meg is doing poorly in school and is upset because of her "plainness". Eventually Charles Wallace,Meg and Calvin O'Keefe go on a crazy galactic adventure with the help of Mrs.Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which and their ability to tesser.

A Wrinkle in Time is an exciting and creative story that definitely deserves the Newbery Medal. The only problems in the story were that some of the characters were hard to believe and a few things were hard to understand but all in all it was a great book.

6th grader from WI

Wonderful!!!.......2007-03-12

I've loved this book since I was a kid. Now I can listen to it while I'm walking in the mornings.

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Classic them of duty and standing up to evil
If you like PLAGIARISM
Madeleine L'Engle's Great Book!
Madeleine L'Engle's Great Book!
Madeleine L'Engle's Great Book!

A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
Manufacturer: Square Fish
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One stormy night a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother, Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin OKeefe on a most dangerous and fantastic journeya journey that will threaten their lives and our universe. Now, 40 years after A Wrinkle in Time was first published to become one of the landmark books in childrens literature, Square Fish is proud to present this Newbery Medal winner completely redesignedand with bonus material, including an appreciation by Anna Quindlen, a new interview with Madeleine LEngle, and the authors Newbery Medal acceptance speech.

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Classic them of duty and standing up to evil.......2007-10-17

L'Engle has crafted a wonderful book, which is no great insight considering its continuing popularity. I read this at age 51 for the first time after my 8-year old told me it was great.

Having young children makes it easier, I think, to get into a book such as this. L'Engle has done a fine job of fleshing out the main protagonist so the young reader can empathize and understand her motivation.

The story is science fiction/fantasy on the surface, but it's a classic story about standing up to evil, doing your duty, and having faith that love will triumph. Added to the main story are bits about being different, fitting in, relationship with parents and siblings, and other 'every day' issues that are important to a kid.

Highly recommended. Now my son's starting the sequel - we'll see how well it holds up.

If you like PLAGIARISM.......2007-10-17

This book is applauded as a great kid's book, but it is a clear plagiarism of Have Spacesuit Will Travel, by Robert A. Heinlein, written ten years before Wrinkle. Some of the scenes are nearly word for word from his book. The 'theories' of space are ALL Heinlein. How this woman managed to publish this book without a lawsuit is a mystery to me. For those whom have an interest in this book, shelf it and read Heinlein. It's the better read.

Madeleine L'Engle's Great Book!.......2007-10-16

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A Wrinkle in Time
This book has a truly, imaginative setting made by a great author. It is an original by a mind that stayed in the clouds. (In a good way.) It starts with a girl named Meg Murry while she's in the attic, trying to sleep, during a storm. Although she does not know that her father goes missing, testing on an experiment. The experiment was on the fifth dimension of time travel. Plus Meg's father is fighting something dark, something black. A thing of some sort.
Is there really a fifth dimension? Did he travel through time? What is he really fighting? Read and find out!
The setting is mostly a normal life including school, mean relatives at home, and a miserable child.
And if you heard anything about this book, you have probably heard that it has a magical setting. Is it really a magical setting or what a person thinks about the real world? Maybe it could be a dream. Read and find out!
All fictional readers around the world, think about these questions. Plus if you ever read this book, you will see some words that have there first letters put in twice. Make sure you pay attention because it could be something special!!

Madeleine L'Engle's Great Book!.......2007-10-16

Many Waters (A Companion to "A Wrinkle in Time")

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This book is awesome... one of my favorites. the book was in great condition!! I've already read it since I got it.
Good but Not for Younger Readers
What HAPPENED to L'Engle after the first 3 books?
The best book in the series

Many Waters (A Companion to "A Wrinkle in Time")
Madeleine L'Engle
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We've all done it. In the frigid depths of winter we've wished we could be magically transported to someplace warm and sunny. But most people don't have genius parents who just happen to be working on a scientific experiment with time travel at the moment of our wish. Sandy and Dennys Murry, the "normal" boys in a family of geniuses, suddenly find themselves trudging through a blazing-hot desert, seeking a far-off oasis for shade. Their desperate wandering brings them face-to-face with history--biblical history. Soon they're feeling right at home with Noah and his family. Even so, the urgent question is, how will Sandy and Dennys get back to their own place and time before the floods--the many waters--come? As they begin to cross the invisible border into adulthood, the twins must confront their ability to resist temptation and embrace integrity.

In Many Waters, Madeleine L'Engle continues the Murry family saga, which includes A Wrinkle in Time; A Wind in the Door; and A Swiftly Tilting Planet, which won the American Book Award. L'Engle's mystical mix of science fiction and fantasy, time and space travel, history, morals, religion, and culture once again urges her many adoring readers to stretch their minds and hearts to understand why the world is the way it is. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter

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A touch of computer keys, a blast of heat, and suddenly the Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are gasping in a shimmering desert land.  If only the brothers had normal parents, not a scientist mother and a father who experiments with space and time travel.  If only the Murry twins had noticed the note on the door of their mother's lab: Experiment In

Progress.  Please Keep Out

But it's too late for regrets.  There's a strange-and very small-person approaching, with a miniature mammoth in tow. . . .

At last it's Sandy and Dennys's turn for an adventure-an adventure that turns serious when they discover that "many waters" are coming to flood the desert.  The twins must find a way back home soon, or they will drown.  But how will they get back to their own time?  Can they?

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Not what I expected from a talented author.......2007-09-29

I was excited to find this book, after enjoying the L'Engle's Wrinkle in Time series as a child. However, this book does not live up the expectations I had. The characters are flat and boring. I kept having to page back in the book to even keep track of which twin was Sandy and which was Dennys. L'Engle starts to frame conflict and interest between the Nephilim and Seraphim but then never follows through with any meaningful development of those two groups. There is a strange love triangle between Sandy, Dennys, and Yalith. I refer to it as strange because while Yalith appears to be a teenager, she is actually over 100 years old. Like the rest of the plot, this love interest is not particularly well developed. And parents be aware: there are some overt sexual references in this book, not at all in character with other L'Engle books I have read. The author tries to build suspense about how Yalith will be saved from the flood but even that falls flat. Overall, a disappointing book, especially coming from such a gifted writer.

This book is awesome... one of my favorites. the book was in great condition!! I've already read it since I got it........2007-09-14

This is a great book that mixes a biblical story with time travel and mythological beasts. Madeleine L'Engle has a way of writing that keeps you interested and makes your mind work. Being a Christian, I appreciate her twist of the story to add a little more life to it for her characters, Dennys and Sandy. I highly recommend this book. This book made me WANT to read books.

Good but Not for Younger Readers.......2007-01-11

I loved the L'Engle's books as a child, but didn't read the fourth until now, when my daughter is old enough to read the other three. However, my fifth grader is *not* going to read this one for many years. The religious ideas are quite interesting to contemplate, that is not the issue. But these teenage boys (Meg's older brothers) are are on the cusp of becoming men and I'm not talking about the hair on their upper lip. I cannot believe that the amazon review says "Grade 6 and up" and later in the same paragraph talks about "sexual tension". This book is not appropriate for middle schoolers. And I don't think it is even appropriate for young high schoolers.

However, if you are the right age for the book, it is a good read. Parts of it really make you think. And it is always fun to revisit old characters in a new setting.

What HAPPENED to L'Engle after the first 3 books?.......2006-07-30

I am in a unique position to provide two firsthand views of this book, unfortunately both negative criticism. One from my 5th-grade self, one from me now, 26 years old. I was in, oh, second grade or so when I read 'A Wrinkle in Time'. Suffice it to say, I was enthused, and followed it up with 'A Wind in the Door' and 'A Swiftly Tilting Planet'. But I detested 'Many Waters'. I just couldn't stand it. It bored me for some reason. That's really all I can say about my earlier self's opinion of the book. It just went on and on without anything interesting happening and reading it was a chore, not a pleasure. But I was not a big reader back then. Most of the books I read at that age I read because I had to read something for a book report, and I would pester my mom to read the real nuisance books to me that I really couldn't stand, which was most of them. She sure had high tolerance. It's only in the last few years I've been able to read novels for enjoyment, not so much because I'm so much more mature now, but because I'm able to polish them off in a day or two now. So I came across it again and decided to read it because I figured before I just wasn't ready for it. Well, more mature or not, I can provide a more thoughtful critique, if a not much more positive one. Indeed, it is profoundly lacking in action, I agree with my 5th grade self, though not enough to get me to procrastinate weeks to finish it off and then beg someone to read it to me. But now I have other problems with it too.

This is, I am sad to say, what happens when someone who has a layman's understanding of science in general tries to incorporate it in a large way into a book. I'm sorry, but it is. It expresses foremost of all a very, VERY narrowminded and antiquated view of the cosmos and Earth's and especially man's place in it. I somehow couldn't see it in 5th grade because I knew jack squat about diddly, but reading it now I was floored. I have to wonder, what century did L'Engle come from? The twentieth, which is what makes it so amazing. So now I am virtually a walking database of every concept all the big, famous, award-winning science fiction authors thoroughly and ludicrously butcher to anyone with the knowledge and intellect to see it (especially special relativity) and am very cynical about it when they try to pass on their self-inconsistent nonsense to me, the reader. L'Engle tried to tie up this mythical land and these mythical races and make it consistent with natural as well as biblical history, evidently thinking this was possible, but of course it wasn't and she ended up with something ill-informed to the extreme on every count I can think of. Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against purple cows and unicorns flying through space and magic and sorcerors and whatnot for the sake of art, but when you try to tie it in with actual history and other things that are not in the artistic realm, or to try to explain it in established scientific terms that don't fit with it, to me, it just indicates ignorance, not artistic liberty. If you want to make a universe like that, it had better be set long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, and another universe altogether if you want to butcher basic scientific concepts. I don't think L'Engle had a clue what a virtual particle was beyond a simple one-sentence definition you might see in an abridged dictionary, for instance, and ineptly mixed it in with a bunch of other scientific concepts she didn't understand and a lot of religious gooble-dy-gook that sadly so many people believe unquestioningly. For example, making a reference to the evolutionary history of horses (weird that she apparently went for evolution with all the other stuff that's in here), how in the ancient past they were very small, as evidence for the claim that it shouldn't seem so strange for mammoths to have been little bitty too. Yeah, sure, so horses were once the size of dogs.... but we're talking 40 million years ago! L'Engle doesn't seem to recognize the distinction between the time when mammoths and sabertoothed tigers roamed around and one to ten thousand times longer ago than that. I guess it's all just a long time ago to her, so she didn't even know the fallacy of what she did, or worse, she really believed the universe all started up six thousand years ago and that the scientific community is mistaken about time even existing before that, but has no problem with referring to what the scientific community says existed 40 million years ago as long as she merely changes the number to 6 thousand. And of course, let's take the little bitty suits of armor from the middle ages, assume everyone in the middle ages was that short, and extrapolate it to even more ancient times and figure that people must have all been 3 or 4 feet tall back then. It gets even worse when she has the Seraphim Adnarel make the claim that the sun is younger and so brighter in the time the twins have found themselves in, and that is why Sandy and Dennys can't tolerate it. Oh yeah, the solar system was SO much younger 6000 years ago (She also doesn't realize THIS is the Solar system as our star is called 'Sol', and several times refers to all star systems as 'solar systems'). Six thousand years is to the sun as roughly half an hour is to a human lifespan today. The sun was NOT significantly different in brightness in old testament days, and in fact it would have been slightly dimmer - it has in its 5 billion year history, whether you choose to accept all of them or just the last 6 thousand - and will, for billions of years hense, in fact, GROW in brightness over time, making Earth too hot for life in two billion years or so. L'Engle apparently figured the sun to be akin to a big candle slowly dying out in a candlish sort of way over a lifespan of at most a few tens of thousands of years. And of course she abandons any semblance of the stars being natural phenomena with all that stuff about the stars getting brighter for the death of the grandfather and sending messages. A very geocentric point of view, to think all the stars out there are varying their brightness in order to express messages to little old Earth, all timed very well I might add since they're all not only many light years away and different distances away. Several times she goes on about equivalence of mass and energy as if knowing it explains the whole universe, and uses it to explain how the two Seraphim can travel through time at the end - that they turn into energy and back into matter. Well, she's a victim of a common misconception that mass can be converted to energy and vice versa but that they are not the same thing, while in fact mass is a form of energy - just a particularly concentrated one, so the Seraphim ought not to have undergone any transformation at all. And that's hardly half of the things I could gripe about. The rest are just a bit more subtle. She just repeatedly came back to things she didn't understand as if the reader's supposed to be so limited in knowledge of those topics and to conclude the connections are brilliant. Suffice it to say, however, that to a scientist, the multitudes of naive claims and naive comparisons in this book in a vain attempt to be scientific and connect it in with the mythologies invented by people who thought the world was flat are really tiresome because of the invalid assumptions they require, which an informed reader doesn't make and an uninformed reader shouldn't make. (It began to remind me of this insane man who once sat down next to me while I was eating when I was in college and started lecturing me about how neutrinos spoke to him and told him they were messengers from Jesus. I was just like -oooohhhhh kaayyyyy....) I have seen that sort of blundering around a lot, though not to such an amazing extent, and it just really gets to me. I was amused when Dennys realizes the ancient people weren't living for hundreds of years but only hundreds of days, thus having a lifespan of 2 or 3 actual terrestrial years. Anyway, instead of this book, I would recommend you read 'World Without End' by Warren Murphy and his wife. That is, if you're looking for a more rationalist take on history and you're not one of those nuts who think dinosaurs pranced around the garden of Eden with Adam and Eve six thousand years ago instead of pre-dating man by 65 million as radioisotope dating of the bones suggests, because you think the universe is only six thousand years old as apparently L'Engle did - it's nice and ironically satirical about virtually every old legend out there from every region of the world and every sufficiently ancient religion. It is a similar story (guy accidently gets sent back in time to days just before the big flood from the Torah/Old Testament), and very similar premise (although Noah is a very minor character, and just a crazy old kook) but it's much more intelligent (the setting for instance is Atlantis, not some mythical fairyland, which as everyone knows, went out with a big flood, so why not make them one and the same - a nice touch I think), more thoughtful (it has a few morals too - I like the context it put slavery in for instance), better written, funnier, far, far more consistent with natural history (no lap-cat sized mammoths, manticores, unicorns, winged angels or any sort of stubborn and extreme adherence to the most outrageous components of creationist dogma, for starters) and human history (you really think the human lifespan was so very different back then, and that people were typically 4 feet tall?), and if you're a 5th grader, most importantly, there's never a dull moment.

The best book in the series.......2006-06-09

I agree with the other reviewers who said that this book is not like the rest. I disagree when they say that the rest were the good ones and this is the bad one. I far preferred this book to the others in the series. It is nearly a straight up fantasy book, with a releiving lack of L'Engle's new age throw-ins which abound in the rest of the series.

This book chronicles Dennys and Sandy's adventure where they travel back to the area Noah lived in shortly before the flood. It presents a very unique portrayal of the seraphim and nephilim, one that is more mythical than most. L'Engle does a better job of character development in this book than in any of the others, and portrays the battle between good and evil on earth in an extraordinary way.

Overall grade: A

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Not True
bad at any price
History of Discovering Cosmic History
Feels like an eternity
Essencial cosmology book - for cosmology lovers.

Wrinkles in Time
George Smoot , and Keay Davidson
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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Behold the Handwriting of God

Astrophysicist and adventurer George Smoot spent twenty years pursuing the "holy grail of science" -- a relentless hunt that led him from the rain forests of Brazil to the frozen wastes of Antarctica. For decades he persevered -- struggling against time, the elements, the forces of ignorance and bureaucratic insanity. And finally, on April 23, 1992, he made a startling announcement that would usher in a new scientific age. For George Smoot and his dedicated team of Berkeley researchers had proven the unprovable -- uncovering, inarguably and for all time, the secrets of the creation of the Universe.

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Not True.......2007-01-14

The discoveries made by the COBE satellite were truly astounding: the microwave
background has a blackbody spectrum, the diffuse IR background, and the fluctuations
in the radiation temperature (the 'wrinkles').
Unfortunately, the author spends too much of the time making it out as if he really
made the discovery and leaving out how it was actually made by the whole science team.
Furthermore, there is no mention of how he ignored the disclosure rules of his groups
and held a self-aggrandizing press conference before the official announcement of the
measurements.

For a much better accounting of this historic experiment, read the book by John Mather,
the other recipient of the Nobel for COBE.

bad at any price.......2004-08-16

I bought this used for 50 cents and didn't
get my money's worth. The author's pompous
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History of Discovering Cosmic History.......2003-12-08

"Einstein, who was devoted to a rational explanation of the world, once said: `I want to know how god created the world. I want to know his thoughts.' He meant it metaphorically, as a measure profundity of his quest." - George Smoot

Wrinkles in time, written by George Smoot and Keay Davidson, is an excellent book if you are interested in cosmology like me, or if you are looking for something to read about how the `big bang hypothesis' was proved into theory, especially if you are in favor of it.

The first part of the book had beneficial knowledge about particle physics. It included different types of dark matter such as baryonic, non-baryonic, cold, hot, etc. It explains the physical, chemical, and nuclear phase transitions of matter, which goes from solid to liquid to gas to plasma and then protons. In this part the author also explains theories such as the big bang theory, predictions, discoveries, and mysteries of the cosmos.

To me the first part was also more exciting than the second part where George Smoot is on a `journey of exploring the Cosmic Background History'. This is the part where the author pursues the `holy grail of science' and at last is allowed to send up his satellite whose data is unbelievable so he goes on an expedition to Antarctica to collect data from the South Pole by his own hands. At last George finds his reason for himself rejecting the data. The book ends with him going to the press to reveal his data and final conclusions.

Feels like an eternity.......2003-10-20

The book covers the last 14 billion years or so, and sometimes it feels like it. It is a bit long-winded and certainly contains a lot of info that I doubt people really want to know. There are some compelling sections - like the U2 flights and the creating of COBE - but all in all Smoot repeats himself too much, and spends too much time on trivialities.
A worthy read for those interested in cosmology, but not a stocking stuffer for the casual reader!

Essencial cosmology book - for cosmology lovers........2002-12-13

I cherish books about cosmology, especially chronicling the most important discoveries about the Universe.
We have had currently three major important milestone developments, changing our perception of the space:
--In 1981Alan Guth introduced rapid, early inflation theory. It was crucial theory explaining why it is natural for the Universe to be expanding close to the critical rate today.
--Scientists were able to obtain a background measure at all in the Universe, using COBE satellite. In 1992 George Smoot announced existence of primordial seeds of modern-day structures such as galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and so on. Later these infrared readings were called "face of God".
--In 1998, acceleration of visible space expansion was officially acknowledged as a breakthrough of the years. The observations confirmed Alan Guth's inflationary theory. Robert Kirshner- supernova guru from Harvard, is one of the most important scientists studying this "cceleration" phenomena.

George Smoot's books belongs to this category of essential "collectors' items". Reader will learn first hand how COBE project has been completed and its results confirmed by measurements of Milky Way's radio emissions taken at the South Pole. Book delivers substantial amount of basic information about Universe as well. As for today, it is a bit of outdated info, but author's writings about personal life, work and experience are still worse of perusal.

Alan Guth's "Inflationary Universe" and Robert Kirshner's "Extravagant Universe" will be two other milestone books being written by directly involved scientists.

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best book in my tenage years.......1999-04-29

A Wrinkle In Tine, waas "FORCED READING IN JUNIOR HIGH", BUR I was so enthralled by it, I've never given it up. I am 34 years old, and I, from time to time read books that I grew up with, ie the hobbit, the blue dolphin and the plack pearl.

I love A wrinkle in time. It is my favorite book right now!.......1999-04-04

A Wrinkle in Time had to be one of my favorite books. I read it in one day i just couldnt put the book down!!!

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Fantasy + Science Fiction = Science Fictansy?
a huge, ever-growing brain that rules from the centre of the ultra world
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A Wrinkle In Time

Manufacturer: Quality Paperback Book Club
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000BK66XE

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Fantasy + Science Fiction = Science Fictansy?.......2006-05-20

A Wrinkle in Time is the best book I have ever read. I read it when I was in 4th grade and I thought it was an amazing piece of work. Ms. L'Engle really does a great job of bringing out the personality in the characters in the book. The book does have some kind of weird fantasy parts, but those parts put together a wonderful masterpiece of science fiction will just blow you away. I recommend this book to both boys and girls of all ages (that includes adults) and you should read it as soon as possible!

a huge, ever-growing brain that rules from the centre of the ultra world.......2006-04-30

This book is essential reading.

Unique.......2006-04-05

A Wrinkle In Time (by Madeleine L' Engle) Reader Review
Reviewer Rebecca L. Slattery from Lebanon ME, USA.
A Wrinkle In Time, By Madeleine L' Engle is about Meg, a very cautious and frightened girl, who is about to embark on the wildest adventure of her life. The people that are going to help her on her quest to find her father are Charles Wallace, Calvin, and three out-of-this-world ladies named Mrs. Who, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Which. On their adventure they come up upon a dark force called the Black Thing, Who symbolizes evil. They also encounter IT a thing that Meg has to defeat in order to save the ones she loves. It produces evil which produces the Black Thing.
The unique setting stood out because of the weird places they visit and how descriptive the author made every place. The places they traveled were otherworldly as in they travel to other planets. The setting was also very strange and very confusing; It takes awhile to understand what was going on. I thought this book was very good full of detail but it went very slow. it took me forever to finish it because of the amount of details the author had given.
I would recommend this book to people with vivid imaginations and people that are interested in science fiction fantasy. I would also recommend this book to young children or parents who would read it to their young children. I also recommend this book to anyone that is into weird things.

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Many Waters

Many Waters (a companion to A Wrinkle in Time)
Madeleine L'Engle
Manufacturer: Random House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Many Waters.......2007-04-17

Many Waters

Many Waters was written by Madeleine L'Engle. It's part of a series of four books, two of which I've read, including this one. The book is about two fifteen-year old twin boys named Sandy and Dennys. They live with their brother, sister, and scientist parents. They come home from school one day, and decide that they want some hot chocolate. So they go into their parents' "lab," which is really just a storage room turned into a lab, to get the hot chocolate mix (Don't ask me why they keep hot chocolate mix in a lab). They get distracted by the computer in the room, and start messing with it and typing things like, "Take me someplace warm," (It's extremely cold winter where they live). The computer just happens to be part of one of their dad's experiments, and it takes them back in time a few thousand years to a huge desert where, surprisingly, people live. They walk around for a few minutes, wondering how they could have gotten there, when a very short man sees them. The man then takes them to his camp, where many more people live. Sandy and Dennys spend their time there trying to figure out to get back home.
One of my favorite parts in the book was when Dennys was no longer sick and could finally go outside. I'm not going to tell you why he was sick in the first place, but I'll tell you this: It has a little something to do with the sun, a unicorn, and a garbage dump. Of course, that doesn't help, but you don't want me to give it away, do you?
From a scale of one to ten, I would give this book a nine. I like adventure and mystery stories, and this story is an adventure, so I liked it. Even if you don't like adventure, you'll still like it. It's not like one of those books where the action never stops, but it's not boring either.
So...Since I'm obviously not going to tell you what happens in the rest of the book, you'll have to read it yourself.

A Wrinkle in Time : A Unit Plan (Litplans on CD)

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A Wrinkle in Time: A Unit Plan

A Wrinkle in Time : A Unit Plan (Litplans on CD)
Mary B. Collins
Manufacturer: Teachers Pet Pubns Inc
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Binding: CD-ROM

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A Guide for Using A Wrinkle in Time in the Classroom
A Wrinkle in Time
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Scholastic Bookfiles

ASIN: 1583370781

Book Description

Complete lesson plans for teaching L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. Includes introduction to the unit, unit objectives, reading assignments, unit outline, study questions (short answer), study/quiz questions (multiple choice), vocabulary worksheets, daily lessons planned, related nonfiction reading assignment, oral reading evaluation, biographical info about the author, three detailed writing assignments (inform, persuade, personal opinion), vocabulary review games & activities, unit review games & activities, at least one group activity assignment, discussion questions on all levels (factual, critical, interpretive, personal response), 2 short answer unit tests, 2 multiple choice unit tests, 1 advanced short answer unit test, unit and vocabulary crossword puzzles, unit and vocabulary extra worksheets & games, bulletin board ideas, ready-to-copy student materials, answer keys, and more!

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A Wrinkle in Time: A Unit Plan.......2001-09-20

WOW!! This unit plan covers all the bases. I am so impressed with this CD unit that I plan to buy one for all the novels I teach! If you teach A Wrinkle in Time, you must purchase this unit plan today!

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Manuela Soares
Manufacturer: Scholastic Reference
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0439463645

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A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle is a favorite middle-grade novel. This companion gives background on the author, including an interview, questions to guide reading, clues to themes, plot, characters, and setting of the book, a glossary, writing and other activities, and more. If you loved A Wrinkle in Time, you need this reading companion.

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