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 be on my way. Speaking of way, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.”
Meg’s father had been experimenting with this fifth dimension of time travel when he mysteriously disappeared. Now the time has come for Meg, her friend Calvin, and Charles Wallace to rescue him. But can they outwit the forces of evil they will encounter on their heart-stopping journey through space?
Celebrating more than sixty years in print, the Newbery Medal-winning classic novel, A Wrinkle in Time, has sold over 10 million copies, remains one of “Teachers’ Top 100 Books for Children” (National Education Association), “Top 100 Chapter Books” of all time (School Library Journal) and is now being adapted for the musical stage for the first time ever.
