A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time is the winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal. The story begins on a dark and stormy night when Meg Murry her small brother Charles Wallace and her mother come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack only to be upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. The unearthly stranger tells them Wild nights are my glory. I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment and then I''ll be on my way. Speaking of ways by the way there is such a thing as a tesseract. A tesseract in case the reader does not know is a wrinkle in time. To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Madeleine L''Engle''s unusual book. A Wrinkle in Time the winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963 is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg Charles Wallace and Calvin O''Keefe an athlete student and one of the most popular boys in high school. They are in search of Meg''s father a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.