A Wind in the Door Author:Madeleine L'Engle A fantastic adventure story involving Meg Murry, 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 ... more »for being "different." He is also strangely, seriously ill...
Then one day, he announces to Meg, "There are dragons in the twins' vegetable garden..." Dragons? Not really, but an entity, a being stranger by far than dragons...« less