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Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
Meg doesn't fit in but all the qualities that make her unique are the ones that will help her save her father
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Add a QuoteLike and equal are entirely different things! --Meg to IT/Charles Wallace
"The foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling , brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called, but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. And base things of the world, and things which despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are."
Summary
Add a SummaryOne night, a mysterious stranger arrives at the Murry household. Meg and her little brother Charles Wallace quickly become involved, and with the help of Calvin O'Keefe they assist three women to help a planet taken over by an evil consciousness called IT, which seeks to erase all uniqueness. Along the way Meg finds secrets about her father, love, and being who you are.
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
lms
Mar 17, 2008
Meg and Charles Wallace set out with their friend Calvin in a search for their father. His top secret job as a physicist for the government has taken him away and the children search through time and space top find him. ( Novelist Review)
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Add a CommentI read this for the "a book that has been made into a movie" part of my 2018 reading challenge. I never read this book when I was younger, and I feel like I would have enjoyed it a lot more then. I was a bit let down, I felt that the plot was too quick and lacked substance, and it all seemed too easy.
It's a good book!:)
I never read this book as a child. After having now read it to my child, I see what I missed. Reading this book together was enjoyable for us both.
This book is one of those perfect books that you can read over and over and over again and still enjoy it.
The child me read this too many times and loved it too much to offer a significant critique.
This book is one of those books that is just full of interest
I haven't read this since I was a kid and I am glad that I didn't remember a lot of it so it felt essentially like the first time. There's a bit of datedness here but the whole adventure to save a parent, weird and wonderful worlds and beings, and coming into yourself was wonderful
I read this book when it first came out and really enjoyed it. When I heard about a movie being made, I thought it would be fun to read the book again to see if I still liked it 55 years later. I did like it still! I hadn’t remembered all of the spiritual & scientific references it contained. I suppose in grade school that didn’t seem so unusual. It does now. This edition included a few pages about the author that were written by her granddaughter. That was a really nice addition to the novel.
I really enjoyed the explanation of physics and time and space, I did also enjoy the christian overtones and can see why this would be considered a banned book, but I wouldn't restrict people from reading this. It involves science, psychology, and some religion commentary and content. I really loved AUNT BEAST!!! I hope Aunt Beast is in the Disney movie, I am already disappointed that the Happy Medium character is bunched up and not as described also it seems the movie version changes Meg's character to make her be the opposite of what the book describes in her schooling. I hope Charles Wallace is not changed. I think Disney took on this book because we're in the 21st century, STEM and scifi as well as fantasy are the subjects of most interest with successes of shows like Stranger Things and The Big Bang Theory interest in science and fantasy is the new trend.
So glad that I read this one before the movie comes out! I'm surprised that I never read this growing up. I can see that it must have been ground breaking thinking at the time, and I'm so glad to have read the 50th anniversary edition that had pictures of the author, a long letter from the granddaughter and other memorabilia.