the book until these past few weeks. I'm not sure how this novel and I slipped past each other in my youth. I'm guessing that since the main character was a girl I wasn't that interested in middle school and when I grew older the science fiction elements didn't appear strong enough to snag my interest. Oh well. Last weekend I bought A Wrinkle in Time at a Borders near the Seattle airport. I wanted the novel to get m ...more So 41 of my goodreads friends have read A Wrinkle in Time , but I never picked up the book until these past few weeks. I'm not sure how this novel and I slipped past each other in my youth. I'm guessing that since the main character was a girl I wasn't that interested in middle school and when I grew older the science fiction elements didn't appear strong enough to snag my interest. Oh well. Last weekend I bought A Wrinkle in Time at a Borders near the Seattle airport. I wanted the novel to get me through the grueling twelve hour journey (whoo, flight delays and pre-dawn connecting flights!) home, and I thank Ms. L'Engle for the perfect story for early hour near-hallucinatory reading in the middle of the Minneapolis International promenade. What makes this book so good? First off, A Wrinkle in Time works under the assumption that kids are smart enough either to grasp the nuances of some fairly deep physics or, if they don't