A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Yearling Books)

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Katherine Stuart, October 25, 2008 (view all comments by Katherine Stuart)
A Wrinkle in Time, if memory serves, was the very first sci fi/fantasy novel I ever read. I was in the sixth grade at the time and it began a life long love affair with the genre. L’Engle however does not translate well into adult reading. She tends to be simplistic, overly moralistic with characters that are flat and a plot line that is convoluted and contrived.
This book is a later one in the series about Meg and Charles Wallace. It begins with the President asking for Mr. Murry’s advice because Branzillo – a mad South American dictator – is threatening to detonate a nuclear bomb which – for reasons that are unclear – will end all life on Earth. What exactly Mr. Murry is to do is unclear, but Charles Wallace goes to a big flat rock and is guided by a unicorn through time to change the past to change the present. From her bedroom, Meg kyth’s with Charles Wallace to help him through his journey.
The flashback scenes of this imaginary past are vivid and engaging, utterly charming. It’s really too bad the entire novel couldn’t have consisted of this alternative history line.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780440401582

Author:

L'Engle, Madeleine

Publisher:

Yearling

Introduction:

L'Engle, Madeleine

Author:

L'Engle, Madeleine

Location:

Old Greenwich, CT

Subject:

Children's fiction

Subject:

Classics

Subject:

Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic

Subject:

Children's 9-12 - Fiction - Fantasy

Subject:

Science fiction

Subject:

Fantasy fiction

Subject:

Time travel

Subject:

Space and time

Copyright:

1980

Edition Description:

Commemorative Paperback

Series:

The Time Quartet

Series Volume:

236

Publication Date:

19801215

Binding:

Paperback

Grade Level:

Primary and secondary/elementary and high school

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Y

Pages:

304

Dimensions:

18 cm. ;

Age Level:

10-14