M.C. W. (merrytranslator) reviewed A Wind in the Door (Time Quintet, Bk 2) on + 68 more book reviews
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The second volume of a trilogy that starts with A Wrinkle in Time and concludes with A Swiftly Tilting Planet. A fantastic adventure, with child protagonists you can't help but like and root for as they battle evil on a cosmic level. Madeleine L'Engle knew how to write for children! (And adults.) Reading level is 5:3.
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a spectacular read for fans of the series, and is especially suitable young adolescents OR an elderly child at heart.
Lisa F. (x0xbookwormx0x) reviewed A Wind in the Door (Time Quintet, Bk 2) on + 100 more book reviews
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"There are dragons in the twins' vegetable garden," announces six-year-old Charles Wallace Murry in the opening sentence of The Wind in the Door. His older sister, Meg, doubts it. She figures he's seen something strange, but dragons--a "dollop of dragons," a "drove of dragons," even a "drive of dragons"--seem highly unlikely. As it turns out, Charles Wallace is right about the dragons--though the sea of eyes (merry eyes, wise eyes, ferocious eyes, kitten eyes, dragon eyes, opening and closing) and wings (in constant motion) is actually a benevolent cherubim (of a singularly plural sort) named Proginoskes who has come to help save Charles Wallace from a serious illness.
In her usual masterful way, Madeleine L'Engle jumps seamlessly from a child's world of liverwurst and cream cheese sandwiches to deeply sinister, cosmic battles between good and evil. Children will revel in the delectably chilling details--including hideous scenes in which a school principal named Mr. Jenkins is impersonated by the Echthroi (the evil forces that tear skies, snuff out light, and darken planets). When it becomes clear that the Echthroi are putting Charles Wallace in danger, the only logical course of action is for Meg and her dear friend Calvin O'Keefe to become small enough to go inside Charles Wallace's body--into one of his mitochondria--to see what's going wrong with his farandolae. In an illuminating flash on the interconnectedness of all things and the relativity of size, we realize that the tiniest problem can have mammoth, even intergalactic ramifications. Can this intrepid group voyage through time and space and muster all their strength of character to save Charles Wallace? It's an exhilarating, enlightening, suspenseful journey that no child should miss.
The other books of the Time quartet, continuing the adventures of the Murry family, are A Wrinkle in Time; A Swiftly Tilting Planet, which won the American Book Award; and Many Waters. (Ages 9 and older)
"There are dragons in the twins' vegetable garden," announces six-year-old Charles Wallace Murry in the opening sentence of The Wind in the Door. His older sister, Meg, doubts it. She figures he's seen something strange, but dragons--a "dollop of dragons," a "drove of dragons," even a "drive of dragons"--seem highly unlikely. As it turns out, Charles Wallace is right about the dragons--though the sea of eyes (merry eyes, wise eyes, ferocious eyes, kitten eyes, dragon eyes, opening and closing) and wings (in constant motion) is actually a benevolent cherubim (of a singularly plural sort) named Proginoskes who has come to help save Charles Wallace from a serious illness.
In her usual masterful way, Madeleine L'Engle jumps seamlessly from a child's world of liverwurst and cream cheese sandwiches to deeply sinister, cosmic battles between good and evil. Children will revel in the delectably chilling details--including hideous scenes in which a school principal named Mr. Jenkins is impersonated by the Echthroi (the evil forces that tear skies, snuff out light, and darken planets). When it becomes clear that the Echthroi are putting Charles Wallace in danger, the only logical course of action is for Meg and her dear friend Calvin O'Keefe to become small enough to go inside Charles Wallace's body--into one of his mitochondria--to see what's going wrong with his farandolae. In an illuminating flash on the interconnectedness of all things and the relativity of size, we realize that the tiniest problem can have mammoth, even intergalactic ramifications. Can this intrepid group voyage through time and space and muster all their strength of character to save Charles Wallace? It's an exhilarating, enlightening, suspenseful journey that no child should miss.
The other books of the Time quartet, continuing the adventures of the Murry family, are A Wrinkle in Time; A Swiftly Tilting Planet, which won the American Book Award; and Many Waters. (Ages 9 and older)
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This is number 2 in the series. I highly reccommend this book. It is welel writen and engaging. I have read is several times both as a young teen and again as an adult.
Wonderful, as with all of Madeleine L'Engle's books. One of my favourite authors.
Excellent sequal to "A Wrinkle In Time". Meant to be read by younger students but a great day read for anyone with time to spare.
Jennifer C. (Jenisthecuteone) reviewed A Wind in the Door (Time Quintet, Bk 2) on + 26 more book reviews
Great adventure story- sequel to A Wrinkle in Time
A veru interesting companion to Wrinkle in Time. Highly imaginative and philosophical.
Wonderful - I love this entire series!
This is a great series of kids books. I read them myself back in the day..
Such a lovely story. Reread it over and over!
very good, read first when I was young, my children and grandchildren all have enjoyed.
Meg Murry can't help worrying when her six year old brother, Charles Wallace, announces that there are dragons in the vegetable garden. He's so bright, and so different from other kids, that's he's being bulled at school, and he is also strangely, seriously ill. But Charles is right about the dragons--actually a friendly entity who has come to help and take Charles, Meg and her friend Calvin on a terrifying, wonderful journey into galactic space.
