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A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L'Engle · 1962 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

A girl whose physicist father vanished out of a classified experiment is visited in a storm by three old women who fold space. She goes after him with her uncanny five-year-old brother and a boy from school, and the road runs through a planet where every house is identical and every child bounces a ball on the same beat. L'Engle's Newbery winner was turned down by more than twenty publishers for mixing physics, theology and a girl who rescues.

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