Wind in the Door

A Wind In The Door is a fantastic adventure story involving Meg Murry her small brother Charles Wallace and Calvin O'Keefe the chief characters of A Wrinkle In Time. The seed from which the story grows is the rather ordinary situation of Charles Wallace's having difficulty in adapting to school. He is extremely bright so much so that he gets punched around a lot for being different. He is also strangely seriously ill (mitochondritis -- the destruction of farandolae minute creature of the mitochondria in the blood). Determined to help Charles Wallace in school Meg pays a visit to his principal Mr. Jenkins a dry cold man with whom Meg herself has had unfortunate run-ins. The interview with Mr. Jenkins goes badly and Meg worriedly returns home to find Charles Wallace waiting for her. There are he announces dragons in the twins' vegetable garden. Or there were. They've moved to the north pasture now.