A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet #1)

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It's generally a delightful book, except for the annoying fact that it promotes an incorrect usage. A tesseract is *not* a wrinkle in time; it's the four-dimensional analog of a cube.

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An interesting books which must have been way ahead of its time. Children employ a tesseract, a wrinkle in time, to move between planets to rescue their father who is held prisoner by a warped, evil intelligence. There are enough "good Guys" and "Bad guys" to make it interesting; I wish the author had not brought in religion as it was quite unnecessary. The ultimate climax is as expected but fitting in a children's story.Interesting Math and language concepts have been introduced to make it educational.

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I was never required to read this book in school so I finally decided to read it myself. What an amazing piece of literature! The story wraps you up and you fall in love with the characters. It's a very simple book and readers of all ages can enjoy it. I'm glad I finally got around to reading it and if you haven't I highly recommend it. There's a reason it's a classic.

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A Wrinkle in Time is a well-loved classic of children’s literature that has remained popular throughout several generations. It has the additional distinction of being a Banned Book. But it’s also a wonderful examination of a young girl’s changing relationship with her father, and of how both fathers and children need to change as children go through the process of growing up. Meg Murray is a young teen who somehow just doesn’t fit in or even know who she is inside. Her normal pains of awkward adolescence are made worse by the fact that her famous scientist father disappeared mysteriously several years earlier, leaving her scientist mother to raise Meg and her three brothers alone in their small town. Meg’s older brothers are as normal as apple pie, but her younger brother Charles Wallace is … different. Brilliant for his age, Charles Wallace also seems to sense and understand things that others can’t. That makes him even more of a misfit than Meg, and inspires a fierce protectiveness in her. Everything changes for the Murray family when three eccentric and otherworldly women appear – Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which, and Mrs. Whatsit – and whisk Meg, Charles Wallace, and their new friend Calvin off on a mission across the universe to rescue Meg’s father. Soon the children are embroiled in nothing less than the eternal cosmic war between Darkness and Light, and Meg will have to be more brave than she can possibly imagine. And when she finally finds her father, Meg will have to confront the fact that her father is, in fact, only a man – and Daddy can’t make everything better this time. It will take Meg and her father working together, and confronting both of their deepest fears, before the Murray family can be reunited again. There’s a little of Meg in all of us, when even as adults we sometimes feel awkward or unsure of who we are. Meg struggles to hold onto her love for her father as she also learns to see him for the human being that he is, and learns how to stand on her own two feet. And there’s a little of Mr. Murray in all of us who are fathers as well, as we learn that we are not gods to our children but only mortal men, and that sometimes we have to learn to let them go. Madeline L’Engle wrote with deep compassion and understanding for both fathers and children, and indeed for all humanity. She never forgot what it was to be a child, with a child’s wonder and the sense that there is an entire magical world just beyond the edge of our perceptions if we could just pull back the veil. A Wrinkle in Time’s reputation is a timeless classic with lessons for both fathers and children, and will remain so for countless years to come.

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I recently decided to revisit one of my favorites from my childhood. It holds up very well, and I still found it enchanting. I had forgotten, however, how absolutely abruptly it ends -- this frustrated me as a child, and it still frustrates me a bit now.