Have you ever visited another galaxy? Meg Murry, in this book, with her brother, Charles Wallace, at her side, in a search of their father. With the help of Mrs. Watsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which, they travel to different worlds in search of their father, Mr. Murry.
Well, they find their father, but in doing so, Charles Wallace gets trapped in the mind of the evil it. Meg, and her father now have to get Charles from It.
I thought it was a very exciting book. I loved the magical science fiction parts. When I read about how Charles Wallace got trapped in by It, that was when I really started getting in to the book. I loved how the author came up with the names of creatures and their talents. She described their physical features so well I could almost picture them in my mind. Now that I have read this book, I wonder if there are really other worlds, other creatures, and battles between good and evil somewhere in the universe. Maybe someday we will find out the truth to it all. We are still looking for answers to this life-long question.
Meg, the protagonist, was very determined. That was one of her greatest strengths, determination. She never gave up looking for her father. When she found him, she thought that he would make everything right, but he couldn't, so he had to leave Charles Wallace behind to get him later from It. She was embittered at her father for not making everything right. She just needed someone to blame. She didn't have many friends. She often got into fights like a hairy-nosed wombat and a rabid mongoose. She got into trouble, talked back to the principal, and got made fun of. This is one of her greatest weaknesses. With her strongest trait, love, she ha to overcome It and free Charles Wallace or he is lost forever.
I could really relate to the protagonist, Meg. She was so excited about getting to her father, when he couldn't save Charles Wallace, her heart turned cold. I feel sorry for her because she didn't know what was going on, she just did as she was told. I liked how Meg was, for lack of a better word, clueless to what's going on. I like that in a character because then I can really relate to them.
If you want to find out what happens to Charles Wallace and the three mysterious women, read this book. You'll never put it down.

A Wrinkle In Time has to be one of my all time favorite books. This fantasy-like story is terrific, and will truely believe anyone who reads it will agree! Definately a five star from me!!

This is the first book I remember being read to me in school or rather we had to take turns reading it I remember hateing school to be over I was so into this book. This is the book that gave me my passion to read now reading is one of my greatest pleasures.. I am now 37 years old and still have a copy of A Wrinkle in Time and still read it over and over again.. After all you never lose contact with an old friend, Please if you have not read it yet do so and pass it along to your children grandchildren or whomever.

I am a graphic artist, not a writer. However, I've never read a book that has spoken to me as deeply as this one. Madeleine L'Engle has both blurred the lines between Faith and Art and cleared them up, all in the same book. She approaches both as part of life, and therefore inseperable from one another. We are as much a part of what we create as it is a part of us, and only through our creations can we discover who we really are.

Every artist, regardless of Faith or medium, should read this and realize we are all, if we truly let ourselves be artists, vessels of the same refreshing and renewing characteristics...characteristics of God. This book feels like an intimate conversation. L'Engle writes with a deepness that calls to deep.

I read A Wrinkle in Time nearly 40 years ago, and remember it as the most remarkable book I read as a child. I must say that Walking on Water is among the most remarkable books I've read as an adult. Certainly it is illuminating as an exposition of how a Christian artist thinks about her work, but it is positively breathtaking as an expression of the transformational nature of Faith and its impact on life. Ms. L'Engle is a marvelous writer and makes frequent reference to those who influenced her life and art. As a result, I have begun reading Merton, Chesterton and others she mentions, much to my benefit. One needn't be a Christian or an artist to appreciate this classic.

Having read and loved "A Circle of Quiet" (the first of four in the Crosswicks Journals) I had high hopes for this second volume. Curiously, though, this book made me reconsider continuing with the series. L'engle's accounts of her extended family read like historical revisionism -- does any extended family function as well as she claims? I would think a creative and brilliant group of people probably clash more than this book would suggest.

As with "A Circle of Quiet" there are little gems along the way -- L'engle is a gifted writer, and reading her thoughts is a privledge. Overall, though, I found her style dispassionate and erudite, not what I would have expected from a personal memoir.

This is a lovely book that underscores the potential beauty of death as well as our responsiblity to the dying. Madeline writes this book as a tribute to her mother and to her mother's life during the summer that her mother lays dying in Madeline's Crosswicks home. The book has very strong echoes (read repetitive)of A Circle of Quiet and therefore should not be read immediately after reading that one. While I found her story interesting and sometimes fascinating, I did get bogged down in some of her listings of her family tree. But this was overall another lovely book that was thouroughly Madeline

I'm a big fan of Madeleine L'Engle's non-fiction (regrettably, I have not yet read any of her fiction); I began with Walking on Water, and then moved on to A Circle of Quiet, from which I arrived here, at The Summer of the Great-Grandmother. There are themes that carry over from Walking and Circle, but for the most part, Summer is a different animal altogether.

Like A Circle of Quiet, the book is autobiographical and takes place at "Crosswicks," the L'Engle/Franklin home in Connecticut. As the title indicates, L'Engle's mother, freshly a great-grandmother, is living with them, and her health and cognitive ability is swiftly declining. Throughout the book--really, like A Circle of Quiet, a collection of journal entries--the author deals with losing the mother that she used to know to senility and incontinence, as well as the effects and ramifications of death.

I've never had anyone close to me die, so I can't relate to this book as much as I could to A Circle of Quiet or Walking on Water, but it's superbly written (L'Engle's words always seem to be alive and breathing), and I imagine that it would be a great comfort to those who are dealing with death.

A Cry Like a Bell is a book of poems from the point of view of Biblical "characters", including animals (such as the ram caught in the thicket in the story of Abraham and Isaac). Madeleine L'Engle's ability to present things from the heart of each person, from Eve and Moses to Mary Magdalene and Barnabas, adds emotion and depth to the stories. The thoughts of characters who are merely mentioned in the Bible gave me the most to consider and empathize with. The fifth star in the rating is missing due to the comparison to her best works (such as Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art, my personal favorite).

This was a wonderful book. It followed Madeliene L'Engles writting style. It was discriptive interesting and entertaining. You won't be able to put it down. If you liked her other books you will difinetly love this one.

The discussions and prayers contained in this book are centered on various topics and are thoughtful, honest, and full of love. There is a "word before you begin" page that indicates that the book is intended to be read aloud with a friend. However, the book would be difficult for me to use in that way when praying with a friend, because of the conversational nature. One author clearly indicates that she views even her dialog with her friend as prayer. However, it seems awkward for me to incorporate another person's conversational prayer into my own shared prayer time. It is a book that I would prefer to use to prepare myself for shared prayer time - not used during it.

There are wonderful gems of prayer in this book that can be used to improve anyone's prayer life. While the prayers are labeled under situational headings, I found many to be applicable to diverse situations and settings. To have a life long prayer friend as reflected in this book is truly a blessing - and wonderful to share in.

This collection of suggestions for praying with a friend and sample prayers is sensitive and beautifully written. Many of the topics speak to my own circumstances, and I find great encouragement in the "mentoring" of these saintly friends.

This book is not by David Brin at all. I have no idea why it is still listed this way, since it is wholly authored by Madeleine L'Engle. The book is a little heavy-handed in extolling the Christian virtues of the protagonist. However, if you are looking for a gift for a child who anticipating the arrival of a new sibling, this would not be a bad choice.

L'Engle's prequel to the Austin Family series extols the virtues of patience and love as a young Vicky waits for the anvent of Christmas and a new baby. Adults and children alike will enjoy savoring the book in anticipation of the holiday. It's a great tool for slowing down the comercialized pace of the season. I'd reccomend the illustrated hardback, but I'm afraid it's out of print!

L'Engle's work is a tribute to the senseless attitude many of us have toward the apparent mindlessness offered to us by the world. Story as Truth is her search for meaning in moments of trouble. Not only do the accounts of her soul-searing tribulations mirror the anger and hurt of the reader, the ways in which she seeks the goodness of God during these times bekons us to seek the same. Yet in seeking that, she finds the God of peace sitting behind a veil of experience. We seek passionatly life, truth, and the good in life, yet in reality (as L'Engle points out) we can only come to this through a thoughtful experience of substance; not necessarily a foul experience, just one real enough to weigh upon our own mortality. A thoughtful look at the experiential side of our lives.

In this analysis of the Old Testament's Joseph and his eleven brothers, one of my favorite authors from childhood (A Wrinkle In Time) has pursued a line of questions worthy of a family therapist. L'Engle essentially explores the patriarchal legacy of Jacob and his sons on a level that blurs the line between spiritual and psychosocial development. She expresses faith that God knows where He is headed with Joseph, yet allows plenty of room for us to enjoy how much these biblical characters resemble our own families. Jealousy, murderous intrigue, envy, revenge, retribution, redemption, and forgiveness all are present. Sexual politics in a two-wife family (not so different from today's divorced, blended, and/or affair-tainted marriages) and the complicated half-sibling relationships that result are clearly presented. L'Engle intersperses her commentary on Joseph with autobiographical material regarding her widowhood and changing sense of family after the death of her husband. At one level, this makes for a rambling and almost chatty work; at another level, it adds intimacy and makes for a sympathetic (rather than judgemental) reponse to the foibles of Joseph's family. Like an old favorite aunt, L'Engle sometimes repeats herself, overgeneralizes, or wrongly assumes that her faith is the same as ours. Oh, but would that we all had a favorite aunt with this much compassion for the human condition to which this epic story speaks! My spiritual journey has been enriched.

This book changed my life. Before I read this book I was an average teen, you know, I didn't like reading that much. Then I read this book and all I do now is read! Since I started reading my grades have gone up dramatically and I was put in the gifted program and the Honors Society.

Readers expecting to find prose dedicated to the praise of Ms. L'Engle will find themselves disappointed with this volume published in her honor -- at first. The essays found here are loving tributes to both Ms. L'Engle and the Ether she captures so elegantly in each of her books. Authors as diverse as Thomas Cahill (How the Irish Saved Civilization) and Katherine Paterson (Jacob Have I Loved) prove L'Engle's talent reaches out to a diverse set of writers with myriad effects. This volume is as much a tribute to the contributors as it is to Ms. L'Engle.