Meg Murry O'Keefe and her family are taken away from their Thanksgiving table when Meg's father receives a phone call from the White House about a madman's threat of nuclear war. Only Meg, her brother Charles and a magical unicorn can save the planet.
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Meg Murry O'Keefe and her family are taken away from their Thanksgiving table when Meg's father receives a phone call from the White House about a madman's threat of nuclear war. Only Meg, her brother Charles and a magical unicorn can save the planet.
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Very good in fair packaging. Ex-library. Usual library markings and stickers in a plastic clamshell case. 6 audio cassettes/appx.7.5 hours play time. Wrinkle in Time Trilogy, 3. Audience: Children/juvenile.
This third installation (or fourth, in character chronology) of the L'Engle's Time Quintet may actually be my favorite. In it, the teenage Charles Wallace is called upon to travel back in time and merge with different people, trying to change the course of the future at points where things "might-have-been." All this is in a desperate attempt to prevent nuclear disaster threatened by a South American dictator.
I always found this book to be more intricate and therefore slightly more engrossing than the two previous, in the way that Charles Wallace must visit many points in time to unravel and re-spin the chain of events leading to the present day. It emphasizes once again themes of interconnectedness, and how the smallest event, no matter how seemingly insignificant, can affect all of time going forward.
Once again the language is smooth and effective, but seems to have gained just the slightest in complexity. There also seem to be additional shades of gray throughout the characters in the book, making things more complicated than they were in "Wrinkle" and "Wind." This is one book I'll gladly come back to again and again.
