WRINKLE IN TIME, A

by L'Engle, Madeleine

• ISBN13: 9780440228394
• ISBN10: 0440228395
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Yearling

Summary

One stormy night a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother, Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe 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.

Author Biography

Madeleine L'Engle is the author of more than forty-five books for all ages, among them the beloved <i>A Wrinkle in Time,</i> awarded the Newbery Medal; <i>A Ring of Endless Light,</i> a Newbery Honor Book; <i>A Swiftly Tilting Planet,</i> winner of the American Book Award; and the Austin family series of which <i>Troubling a Star</i> is the fifth book. L'Engle was named the 1998 recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards award, honoring her lifetime contribution in writing for teens.<br><br>Ms. L'Engle was born in 1918 in New York City, late in her parents' lives,an only child growing up in an adult world. Her father was a journalist who had been a foreign correspondent, and although he suffered from mustard gas poisoning in World War I, his work still took him abroad a great deal. Her mother was a music

Table of Contents

Mrs. Whatsit	p. 1
Mrs. Who	p. 19
Mrs. Which	p. 34
The Black Thing	p. 50
The Tesseract	p. 68
The Happy Medium	p. 84
The Man with Red Eyes	p. 106
The Transparent Column	p. 124
It	p. 135
Absolute Zero	p. 153
Aunt Beast	p. 165
The Foolish and the Weak	p. 180
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