A Wrinkle in Time

A physicist's daughter bends spacetime to rescue her father. Madeleine L'Engle's Newbery-winning novel about love, courage, and thinking dimensionally.

Meg Murry is unremarkable in every way she can count: average looks, gangly limbs, an uncertain temper. Her father, an astrophysicist, disappeared months ago while working on a secret government project. What she does not yet understand is that thinking herself ordinary is the first obstacle to overcome.

L'Engle wrote this novel in the 1960s for readers who had begun to sense that the universe was stranger and more wondrous than their textbooks suggested. Faculty assign it not to teach young readers about tesseracts (though they will learn that too), but to watch them discover that they are more capable than they believed. It's a book about intellectual courage: trusting your own thinking even when adults doubt you.

DETAILS
- Hardcover, 218 pages
- 1962 (Newbery Medal, 1963)
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux