A Wind in the Door
A Wind in the Door (Time Quartet) Madeleine L'Engle,
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
ISBN: 044098761X
Edition: Paperback; 1976-03-01
Summary:
"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) --Karin Snelson
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