A Wrinkle in Time By Madeleine L'Engle

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About Book

Title: A Wrinkle in Time
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy Fiction
Major Book Awards: 1963 Newbery Medal
Recommended Age Range: 10-14 and up
Appropriate Grade Levels: 5th to 9th grade and up

Summary

This book tells the adventure of 3 kids, Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and friend Calvin O'Keefe traveling through time to rescue her father Alex Murry, who'd suddenly disappeared. With the help of 3 celestial beings, the kids are tessered to different planets to find him. During the search, they discovered that these planets, including Earth are being under attacked by an evil dark cloud called The Black Thing. Once they get to planet Camazotz, where their father is trapped on, they learn that life on this planet is under control of IT, an evil energy, that traps their minds to behave a certain way. Their father is stuck there as a prisoner, because he would not allow himself to be controlled by IT. Not too long after, Charles was hypnotized by a man with red eyes and is under the IT's influence. However, this helped Meg find out where her dad was. They all confront IT and was able to escape last minute before IT can overpower them. Unfortunately, Charles was left behind on Camazotz and still under IT's influence. Towards the end of the story, Meg found out that her ability to love can set her brother free and it did. They then returned to Earth and reunited with everyone.

Evaluation - Would I Incorporate this book in the classroom?

This was a fun, yet weird story. It is so unique and full of adventures of traveling through time and space. It's possible that I would use this book in my classroom since it does cover what many kids go through internally. It tells us that we never know what someone is going through, and we should treat everyone with kindness. And that pain or fear in our lives can affect us as a person and only allows us to see the darkness. But with kindness to ourselves and others, we can get rid of that darkness within us and see the light. It's like a battle of good and evil within ourselves, but we should learn how to "stay focus on light even with the present of darkness" and to not give up. I would use this book starting at 5th grade. Since this book is pretty long, I would definitely have an audio read it aloud. This book gives students a taste of science and fantasy fiction that involves time travel, which are fun book genres. An activity that students can do is write and organize their own science or fantasy fiction adventure to anywhere they want, creating their own characters and plot.

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