Received Newbery Medal (1963), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1964), Oklahoma Sequoyah Award (1965), Margaret A. Edwards Award (1998). It was a dark and stormy night.

Out of this wild night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventure—one that will threaten their lives and our universe.

Winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal, A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L'Engle's classic Time Quintet.