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Product Identifiers

PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-100374373620

ISBN-139780374373627

eBay Product ID (ePID)176923

Product Key Features

Book TitleSwiftly Tilting Planet : (National Book Award Winner)

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1978

TopicClassics, Fantasy & Magic, General, Time Travel, Science Fiction

GenreJuvenile Fiction

AuthorMadeleine L'Engle

Book SeriesA Wrinkle in Time Quintet Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight17.6 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience

LCCN78-009648

TitleLeadingA

Dewey Edition20

ReviewsCharles Wallace ( A Wrinkle in Time ), now 15, Meg, and the Murrys reappear in an intricately woven fantasy in which the boy time-spins through a tangle of history to find and mend the broken link that threatens to disturb the harmony of today., "Charles Wallace ( A Wrinkle in Time ), now 15, Meg, and the Murrys reappear in an intricately woven fantasy in which the boy time-spins through a tangle of history to find and mend the broken link that threatens to disturb the harmony of today." -- Starred, Booklist, "Charles Wallace (A Wrinkle in Time), now 15, Meg, and the Murrys reappear in an intricately woven fantasy in which the boy time-spins through a tangle of history to find and mend the broken link that threatens to disturb the harmony of today." --Starred, Booklist, "Charles Wallace ( A Wrinkle in Time ), now 15, Meg, and the Murrys reappear in an intricately woven fantasy in which the boy time-spins through a tangle of history to find and mend the broken link that threatens to disturb the harmony of today." --Starred, Booklist, "Charles Wallace (A Wrinkle in Time), now 15, Meg, and the Murrys reappear in an intricately woven fantasy in which the boy time-spins through a tangle of history to find and mend the broken link that threatens to disturb the harmony of today." --Starred,Booklist

Grade FromFourth Grade

Series Volume Number4

Grade ToEighth Grade

Dewey Decimal813.54

SynopsisIn A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle, a companion to the Newbery Award winner A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door , fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. They are not alone in their quest. Charles Wallace's sister, Meg--grown and expecting her first child, but still able to enter her brother's thoughts and emotions by "kything"--goes with him in spirit. Charles Wallace must face the ultimate test of his faith and his will as he is sent within four people from another time, there to search for a way to avert the tragedy threatening them all., "Charles Wallace ( A Wrinkle in Time ), now 15, Meg, and the Murrys reappear in an intricately woven fantasy in which the boy time-spins through a tangle of history to find and mend the broken link that threatens to disturb the harmony of today." --Starred, Booklist

LC Classification NumberPS3568.O243