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Author: Madeleine L'Engle
First Published: 1962
Type of Work: Novel
Genres: Long fiction, Fable, Bildungsroman, Science fiction, Adventure, Fantasy
Subjects: 1950’s, Maturation or coming of age, Freedom, Values, Children, Family or family life, United States or Americans, Power, personal or social, Adolescence, Teenagers, Supernatural, Extrasensory perception or powers, Future, Other worlds, Space flight or travel, Brothers and sisters, Individuality, Emotions, Brothers, Time travel, Good and evil, Conformity, Planets, Space and time, Technology, Battles
Locales: Space, Northeast (U.S.), Camazotz (fictive), Uriel (fictive)

A Wrinkle in Time was L’Engle's third novel to be published. The novel opens with Meg Murray, a girl just entering high school, the middle child and only daughter, going downstairs in a storm to find her little brother, Charles Wallace, waiting for her. The reference is made to the ability of Charles Wallace to know her thoughts, which readers later discover is the ability to kythe, or communicate thought from mind to mind without speaking. This is the first indication of the special abilities Charles Wallace possesses and develops throughout the trilogy.

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