A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

[Catherine]

Here are the mentions of Meg's braces in A Wrinkle in Time:

""Go back to sleep," Meg said. "Just be glad you're a kitten and not a monster like me." She looked at herself in the wardrobe mirror and made a horrible face, baring a mouthful of teeth covered with braces."

"Meg eyed the principal warily, and ran her tongue over the barbed line of her braces."

""He is a physicist.” Meg bared her teeth to reveal the two ferocious lines of braces."

"Meg raised her head, and moonlight shone on her tear- stained face; without the glasses her eyes were unexpectedly beautiful. "If Charles Wallace is a sport, I think I'm a biological mistake." Moonlight flashed against her braces as Slie spoke."

"Meg pressed her knuckles against her teeth so that her braces cut her skin."

(By the next volume, A Wind in the Door Meg is done with her braces. The only mention of them is:

"Meg, moving the tip of her tongue over her teeth which had only recently lost their braces, looked at him affectionately and sadly."