Meg Murry, a troubled teen in high school who finds herself to be different from the kids at school, travels through space along with her little brother, Charles Wallace Murry, and friend, Calvin O’keefe, on a quest to find Meg and Charles’s father. Dr. Alex Murry, Charles and Meg’s father, is stuck on planet Camazotz and has been for five years, leaving his family to only wonder what happened to their dad. The three kids set off on a journey to find Dr. Murry, but they wouldn’t be able to do it without the help of Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which who give the kids advice and gets them prepared to fight against the antagonist known as “IT”. IT is an over sized brain that is the boss over a violent shadow called the black thing with a job to take over planets such as earth and cause trouble. Mrs, Which tells the kids “itt iss eevill. Itt iss thee powers of ddarrkknesss!” (L'engle 99).

In this book, there are three woman, each with different personalities that connect together well to help the kids the best they can to accomplish their mission. Mrs. Which, the wise shimmer of light, Mrs. Whatsit, a bubbly woman of color and knowledge, and my favorite, Mrs. Who. Mrs. Who has a creative way of explaining which is in quotes of different languages, Mrs. Whatsit explains this to Charles saying “… She finds it so difficult to verbalize, Charles dear. It helps her if she can quote instead of working out words of her own.” (L'engle 69).

L’engle did wonderful on the details describing the imagery the kids witnessed on their space travel trip. She gave enough insight on the universe to give readers the ability to picture everything that was going on. She also does excellent in describing the actions that takes place during the kids adventures. One thing I would change in the book is a small part of the grammar. I’m not an expert in grammar, but there were a very few sentences in each chapter that I would add a comma to.

I recommend A Wrinkle in Time to teenagers who are into science fiction and fantasy. This book is interesting and all around entertaining, but the book fits more for people under the age of 16 as others may not find it as intriguing.