"A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeline L'Engle is not for everyone. It has a religious message and offers a political one--the individual and the family more important than the collective (the book was published in 1963 when the Cold War was running hot). The science in this science fiction is more fantasy that anything else. But the book has been considered a classic for the better parts of five decades and there are reasons for this. There is a protagonist that many children can relate to and the characters are often striking if not particularly realistic. The plot is constantly moving and the story is so different that readers will want to continue to see what happens next. This is not an easy book to understand. Unlike too many writers for children, L'Engle did not think her readers were idiots and so she used large words, strange concepts and brings up names and quotes that many children would not be familiar with from Euripides to Goethe. L'Engle shows that there is evil in this world--and others--and we are, at times, forced to confront it.Get more detail about A Wrinkle in Time.
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