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Review: A Wrinkle in Time – Time Travel and Various Planets

Posted June 3, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Review: A Wrinkle in Time – Time Travel and Various PlanetsA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Series: Time Quintet #1
Publisher: Yearling Newburry (1962)
Paperback (256 pages)
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Reading Challenges: 2015 Re-Reading, Read 2015

Synopsis

It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.
“Wild nights are my glory,” the unearthly stranger told them. “I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me be on my way. Speaking of way, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract”.
Meg’s father had been experimenting with this fifth dimension of time travel when he mysteriously disappeared. Now the time has come for Meg, her friend Calvin, and Charles Wallace to rescue him. But can they outwit the forces of evil they will encounter on their heart-stopping journey through space?

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A Review By My Students: The Magician’s Nephew

Posted March 5, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments

A Review By My Students: The Magician’s NephewThe Magician's Nephew by C S Lewis
Series: The Chronicles of Narnia #1
Publisher: HarperTrophy (1955)
Paperback (202 pages)
Rating:
Reading Challenges: 2015 Re-Reading, Read 2015

Synopsis

When Digory and Polly are tricked by Digory’s peculiar Uncle Andrew into becoming part of an experiment, they set off on the adventure of a lifetime. What happens to the children when they touch Uncle Andrew’s magic rings is far beyond anything even the old magician could have imagined.
Hurtled into the Wood between the Worlds, the children soon find that they can enter many worlds through the mysterious pools there. In one world they encounter the evil Queen Jadis, who wreaks havoc in the streets of London when she is accidentally brought back with them. When they finally manage to pull her out of London, unintentionally taking along Uncle Andrew and a coachman with his horse, they find themselves in what will come to be known as the land of Narnia.

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