A Wrinkle in Time

Imagine a smart but grumpy girl named Meg whose dad, a super scientist, vanishes into space using a magic shortcut called a tesseract. With her little genius brother Charles Wallace, a cool boy named Calvin, and three weird ladies who can turn into flying horses and quote Shakespeare, they zoom to scary planets to fight a big evil brain called IT that makes everyone act like robots. Meg saves the day by using love, the strongest power ever, proving even kids can beat monsters with family and bravery!

A Wrinkle in Time follows Meg Murry, a socially awkward high school girl, her precocious five-year-old brother Charles Wallace, and their new friend Calvin O'Keefe, as they embark on a perilous interstellar quest to rescue Meg's physicist father, Dr. Alex Murry, who has disappeared while experimenting with the tesseract—a method of bending space-time for instantaneous travel. Guided by the enigmatic Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which, ancient celestial beings who transform into diverse forms, the trio 'wrinkles' through dimensions to planets like the fiery Uriel, the paradisiacal Ixchel, and the dystopian Camazotz, where conformity reigns under the malevolent brain-entity IT, which has ensnared Dr. Murry. On Camazotz, Charles Wallace succumbs to IT's mind control, forcing Meg to confront her deepest flaws—anger and impatience—armed only with her unique human capacity for love and individuality. Through self-sacrifice and invoking the power of love, Meg frees her father and brother, escaping back to Earth transformed by their odyssey. L'Engle's narrative masterfully intertwines quantum physics, Christian mysticism, and psychological depth, exploring how personal weaknesses become strengths in the cosmic battle between light and darkness.