A Wrinkle in Time
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Series
Time quintet volume 1
Published
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) , 2012.
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Description

Madeleine L'Engle's ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic, soon to be a major motion picture.

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.

A Wrinkle in Time is the winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal. It is the first book in The Time Quintet, which consists of A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time.

A Wrinkle in Time is soon to be a movie from Disney, directed by Ava DuVernay, starring Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling.

This title has Common Core connections.

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Format
eBook
Street Date
01/31/2012
Language
English
ISBN
9781466801646

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Also in this Series

  • A wrinkle in time (Time quintet Volume 1) Cover
  • A wind in the door (Time quintet Volume 2) Cover
  • A swiftly tilting planet (Time quintet Volume 3) Cover
  • Many waters (Time quintet Volume 4) Cover
  • An acceptable time (Time quintet Volume 5) Cover

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Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

L'Engle, M. (2012). A Wrinkle in Time . Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR).

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

L'Engle, Madeleine. 2012. A Wrinkle in Time. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR).

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

L'Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2012.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

L'Engle, M. (2012). A wrinkle in time. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR).

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

L'Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2012.

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