Published in 1962, A Wrinkle in Time quickly won the coveted Newbery Medal in 1963. It is a tale filled with magic, mystery, and adventure; but the very core of it is the heartwarming quest of a girl wanting nothing more than to find her father- a government scientist who disappears after working on a mysterious project called a tesseract, a concept commonly known today as a wormhole; L’Engle was inspired after reading several texts about quantum physics.

Their travels take them to the planet Uriel, where everything is good; and winged centaurs sing praises. They discover that the Universe is being attacked by a monster called the Black Thing. The Black Thing captured Meg’s father and took him to the planet Camazotz, where everything is controlled by a disembodied brain called IT. IT demands absolute conformity, to the point that all houses, towns, and cities look exactly the same.

Doesn’t sound like such a bad book, does it? Unfortunately, some people needed yet another item for the fires of ignorance…

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