A Wind in the Door

Madeleine L'Engle

  • Reissue Edition
  • Paperback
  • Published by Dell Pub Co
  • Publication date: August 1996
  • Dimensions (in inches): 7.57 x 5.14 x .60
  • ISBN: 0440487617

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Description

Meg Murry can't help but be worried when her six-year-old brother, Charles Wallace, announces there are dragons in the vegetable garden. He's so bright, and so different from other kids, he's getting bullied at school, and he is also strangely, seriously ill.

But Charles Wallace is right about the dragons- actually a friendly entity who has come to help Charles Wallace fight his sickness, and to take Meg and her friend Calvin O'Keefe on a terrifying, wonderful journey into galactic space- where they must battle the forces of evil to save Charles Wallace, and themselves.

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"This is breathtaking entertainment." -LIbrary Journal (starred review)

"Madeleine L'Engle mixes classical theology, contemporary family life, and futuristic science fiction to make a completely convincing tale that should put under its spell both readers familiar with the Murrys and those meeting them for the first time." -The New York Times Book Review

About the Author

Madeleine L'Engle is the author of more than forty books for children, including the Newbery Award Medal winner A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and Many Waters, all available in Dell Yearling editions. She lives in New York City and Goshen, Connecticut.

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