Charles is Meg's little brother. He has always been a little different, highly intelligent, and a sensitive. The father Mr. Murray went to work over a year ago on a top-secret assignment for the government. No one has heard from him since. The U.S. Government will not give the mother any information.

Both parents are Scientists who delve into the space/time continual on the quantum level.

Three otherworldly creatures make Charle's acquaintance. Charles then introduces his sister to them. It is these three creatures who take Charles, and Meg, along with their friend Calvin, on a magical adventure. They'll travel through space and time to try and find their father. They're told that their father disappeared while battling an evil cosmic entity. An entity that is eating up the light of one universe, and is headed toward Earth.

The trials the kids go through to find their father will stretch your imagination.

The uniqueness of the story.

This really wasn't a story for me. I didn't care for the style of writing, or the subject matter.

Madeleine was born on November 29th, 1918, and spent her formative years in New York City. Instead of her school work, she found that she would much rather be writing stories, poems and journals for herself, which was reflected in her grades (not the best). However, she was not discouraged.

At age 12, she moved to the French Alps with her parents and went to an English boarding school where, thankfully, her passion for writing continued to grow. She flourished during her high school years back in the United States at Ashley Hall in Charleston, South Carolina, vacationing with her mother in a rambling old beach cottage on a beautiful stretch of Florida Beach.

She went to Smith College and studied English with some wonderful teachers as she read the classics and continued her own creative writing. She graduated with honors and moved into a Greenwich Village apartment in New York. She worked in the theater, where Equity union pay and a flexible schedule afforded her the time to write! She published her first two novels during these years—A Small Rain and Ilsa—before meeting Hugh Franklin, her future husband, when she was an understudy in Anton Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard. They married during The Joyous Season.

She had a baby girl and kept on writing, eventually moving to Connecticut to raise the family away from the city in a small dairy farm village with more cows than people. They bought a dead general store, and brought it to life for 9 years. They moved back to the city with three children, and Hugh revitalized his professional acting career.

As the years passed and the children grew, Madeleine continued to write and Hugh to act, and they to enjoy each other and life. Madeleine began her association with the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, where she was the librarian and maintained an office for more than thirty years. After Hugh’s death in 1986, it was her writing and lecturing that kept her going. She lived through the 20th century and into the 21st and wrote over 60 books. She enjoyed being with her friends, her children, her grandchildren, and her great grandchildren.

Winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal
Theology, Science, Fantasy

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