A Wind in the Door

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A Wind in the Door is a fantastic adventure story involving Meg Muf ry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe, the chief characters of A Wrinkle in Time. The seed from which the story grows is the rather ordinary situation of Charles Wallace's having difficulty in adapting to school. He is extremely bright, so much so that he gets punched around a lot for being "different." He is also strangely, seriously ill {mitochondritis^the destruction of farandolae, minute creatures of the mitochondria in the blood). Determined to help Charles Wallace in school, Meg pays a visit to his principal, Mr. Jenkins, a dry, cold man with whom Meg herself has had unfortunate run-ins. The Interview with Mr. Jenkins goes badly and Meg worriedly returns home to find Charles Wallace waiting for her. "There are," he announces, "dragons in the twins' vegetable garden. Or there were. They've moved to the north pas-turenow." I
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A Wind in the Door is a fantastic adventure story involving Meg Muf ry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe, the chief characters of A Wrinkle in Time. The seed from which the story grows is the rather ordinary situation of Charles Wallace's having difficulty in adapting to school. He is extremely bright, so much so that he gets punched around a lot for being "different." He is also strangely, seriously ill {mitochondritis^the destruction of farandolae, minute creatures of the mitochondria in the blood). Determined to help Charles Wallace in school, Meg pays a visit to his principal, Mr. Jenkins, a dry, cold man with whom Meg herself has had unfortunate run-ins. The Interview with Mr. Jenkins goes badly and Meg worriedly returns home to find Charles Wallace waiting for her. "There are," he announces, "dragons in the twins' vegetable garden. Or there were. They've moved to the north pas-turenow." I
Dragons? Not really, but an entityj a being stranger by far than dragons; and the encounter with this alien creature is only the first step that leads Meg, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins out into galactic . space, and then Into the unimaginably small world of a mltochoi%-drlon. And, at last, safely, triumphantly, home. i liM s
"This is a breathtaking entertainment/'^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ review) Library journal
"Madeleine UEngle mixes classical theology, contemporary family Ufe, 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
"Through a day and night of terror, the forces of good and evil fight for the life of the boy and the ultimate salvation of mankind. Mrs, UEngle proves once again that she is a fine and sensitive teller of tales/'
^m. ^ , --Publishers Weekly
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