num_pages: 278
description: 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.
language: English
title: A Swiftly Tilting Planet
titlecomplete: A Swiftly Tilting Planet
characters: Dennys Murry, Harcels, Chuck Maddox, Meg Murry, Gaudior, Charles Wallace Murry, Mrs. O'Keefe, Matthew Maddox, Brandon Llawcae, Echthroi, Mad Dog Branzillo, Madoc Gywnedd, Sandy Murry
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Time Travel, Childrens, Fantasy
ratings_count: 107528
places: Connecticut
series: Time Quintet, Kairos
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: National Book Award
category: Children's Books (Paperback), awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Margaret A. Edwards Award
publisher: Topeka Bindery