A Wrinkle In Time

Author: Madeleine L'Engle
Copyright: 1962
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 7/10
# Pages: 211
Reviewer: Blogging Buddha

A Wrinkle in Time is the story of Meg Murry, a high-school-aged girl who is transported on an adventure through time and space with her younger brother Charles Wallace and her best friend Calvin O'Keefe to rescue her father, a scientist, from the evil forces that have captured him on another planet. At the beginning of the book, Meg is an insecure girl and her concern for her father, who has been missing for over a year, did not make Meg’s adolescent life any better. The real story begins with the arrival of Mrs. Whatsit at the Murry house on a dark and stormy evening. Mrs. Whatsit is actually a celestial creature with the ability to read Meg's thoughts, though she looks like an average human being. She startles Meg's mother by reassuring her of the existence of a tesseract, a sort of "wrinkle" in space and time. Through this wrinkle Meg and her companions set off to find her father. After encountering multiple odd creatures and puzzles, Meg is reunited with her father.

I really enjoyed this classic book! At first, the storyline was a little too scattered and random for me but I kept reading further and further and realized that that style of writing coordinated with the way the protagonist felt throughout the story. Overall, A Wrinkle in Time was highly entertaining and a creative story