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I'm not really sure how this missed my radar growing up (specially seeing howuch time I spent in my local library) but am making up for it now. Not really sure how I feel about it, I guess I might have enjoyed it more had I read it as a child.
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Science fiction for children? Really? Yes!
Meg Murry feels very alone – she has braces, thick glasses and fly away hair. While she’s a whiz at math, she can’t pass social studies to save her life, and she’s getting a reputation for being “backward.” But she’s really very intelligent. It’s just that she’s worried about her father, who’s been away “on business” for over a year. Her youngest brother, Charles Wallace, isn’t even in school yet, but is wise far beyond his years, with a special gift of ...more
Meg Murry feels very alone – she has braces, thick glasses and fly away hair. While she’s a whiz at math, she can’t pass social studies to save her life, and she’s getting a reputation for being “backward.” But she’s really very intelligent. It’s just that she’s worried about her father, who’s been away “on business” for over a year. Her youngest brother, Charles Wallace, isn’t even in school yet, but is wise far beyond his years, with a special gift of ...more
An excellent light read, although I suspect I would have absolutely adored it if I had first read it back when I was a kid. Definitely deserves to be read a again and again.
I want to especially recommend this 50th anniversary edition published in 2012 for the supplemental materials included: great photos, a memoir of Madeleine by her granddaughter Charlotte, a chapter from the original manuscript typed on an regular typewriter with handwrit in pencil edits, a transcript of her Newberry Award acc ...more
I want to especially recommend this 50th anniversary edition published in 2012 for the supplemental materials included: great photos, a memoir of Madeleine by her granddaughter Charlotte, a chapter from the original manuscript typed on an regular typewriter with handwrit in pencil edits, a transcript of her Newberry Award acc ...more
This was a fascinating story and it's hard to believe I just read it for the first time. I love Madeleine L'Engle's imagination. It's like nothing is off-limits in her stories.
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Apr 29, 2015
Kris (My Novelesque Life)
marked it as to-read
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Kristin
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