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Wind in the Door: 2 (Wrinkle in Time Quintet) Hardcover – 1 May 1973

by Madeleine L'Engle (Author)
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A "Wind In The Door" is a fantastic adventure story involving Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe, the chief characters of "A Wrinkle In Time." The seed from which the story grows is the rather ordinary situation of Charles Wallace's having difficulty in adapting to school. He is extremely bright, so much so that he gets punched around a lot for being "different." He is also strangely, seriously ill (mitochondritis -- the destruction of farandolae, minute creature of the mitochondria in the blood). Determined to help Charles Wallace in school, Meg pays a visit to his principal, Mr. Jenkins, a dry, cold man with whom Meg herself has had unfortunate run-ins. The interview with Mr. Jenkins goes badly and Meg worriedly returns home to find Charles Wallace waiting for her. "There are, " he announces, "dragons in the twins' vegetable garden. Or there were. They've moved to the north pasture now."
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  1. Reading age
    10 - 14 years
  2. Book 2 of 5
    A Wrinkle in Time
  3. Print length
    224 pages
  4. Language
    English
  5. Grade level
    Pre-school - 3
  6. Lexile measure
    790L
  7. Dimensions
    13.97 x 1.57 x 21.59 cm
  8. Publisher
    St. Martins Press-3PL
  9. Publication date
    1 May 1973
  10. ISBN-10
    0374384436
  11. ISBN-13
    978-0374384432
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"The chief characters of A Wrinkle in Time return in a complex sci-fi / fantasy adventure that is both similar and superior . . . The action is precipitated by Charles Wallace's failing health and his difficulties in being accepted by other children now that he's started school. Meg and O'Keefe are enlisted again to fight evil, this time in the shapre of Echthroi ('Light snuffers. Planet darkeners. The dragons. The worms. Those who hate.'), which are spreading through the universe. Guided by their mysterious teacher Blajeny and accompanied by a myriad-eyed, multiwinged cherubim named Proginoskes, Meg, Calivn and Mr. Jenkins (the crusty, unimaginitive school principal with whom Meg ha shad difficulty in the past) must pass three ordeals in order to save Charles Wallace from the Echthroi. Once again it is love that enables Meg to overcome evil, and L'Engle reaches mystical ecstasy in describing Meg's apprehension of the beauty and unity of the universe. Complex concepts of space and time are handled well for youn greaders, and the author creates a suspensful, life-and-death drama that is believably of cosmic significance. Complex and rich in mystical religious insights, this is breathtaking entertainment." --Starred, School Library Journal

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Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) was the Newbery Medal-winning author of more than 60 books, including the much-loved A Wrinkle in Time. Born in 1918, L'Engle grew up in New York City, Switzerland, South Carolina and Massachusetts. Her father was a reporter and her mother had studied to be a pianist, and their house was always full of musicians and theater people. L'Engle graduated cum laude from Smith College, then returned to New York to work in the theater. While touring with a play, she wrote her first book, The Small Rain, originally published in 1945. She met her future husband, Hugh Franklin, when they both appeared in The Cherry Orchard. Upon becoming Mrs. Franklin, L'Engle gave up the stage in favor of the typewriter. In the years her three children were growing up, she wrote four more novels. Hugh Franklin temporarily retired from the theater, and the family moved to western Connecticut and for ten years ran a general store. Her book Meet the Austins, an American Library Association Notable Children's Book of 1960, was based on this experience. Her science fantasy classic A Wrinkle in Time was awarded the 1963 Newbery Medal. Two companion novels, A Wind in the Door and A Swiftly Tilting Planet (a Newbery Honor book), complete what has come to be known as The Time Trilogy, a series that continues to grow in popularity with a new generation of readers. Her 1980 book A Ring of Endless Light won the Newbery Honor. L'Engle passed away in 2007 in Litchfield, Connecticut.

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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.

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  • syc
    5.0 out of 5 stars Love It!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 October 2011
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    If you have read A Wrinkle In Time & love it, you will love A Wind in the Door. An amazing second adventure for Charles Wallace, Meg & Calvin - it is soooo much more than a children's book!
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  • Molly
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 July 2016
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    Wonderful book! Perfect for ages 11+
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  • Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Terrible proof reading, great story
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 April 2022
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    The proof reading, layout, chapter and division headings are all over the place. Luckily I know the story well and it's a terrific story. I'm glad to see these on Kindle at last but it's sloppy.
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  • RJStevene
    5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute stunner
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 November 2018
    From the Murray series of books this was the first one I read and remains my favourite of the series. While A Wrinkle In Time introduces the characters and the concepts A Wind In The Door raises the bar on fantastic characters and exciting situations. If Wrinkle is aimed at pre-teens then Wind is aimed at teenagers. What I love about this edition is that there is one scene that has always stayed in my mind, so much so that I read it to my class during my first teaching practice, the one where a Mr Jenkins double on being found out rises into the sky turning into a cloud of ravens, and that is what is depicted on the cover.
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  • Miss S
    3.0 out of 5 stars Good read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 July 2018
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    Good series but doesn't beat first book!
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  • A.L. Harper
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 August 2017
    Excellent follow-up to A Wrinkle in Time. Love this book. You really should read the entire Time Quintet.
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  • Mike London
    5.0 out of 5 stars I've been changed., February 15, 2001
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 September 2012
    Having completed the first two books in L'Engle's TIME QUARTET, I must confess both books have kept me consistentaly amazed. Hopefully, she will be able to sustain this through the other three books (still don't understand why its not the TIME QUINTET, other than the logic I gave in my review of A WRINKLE IN TIME, but that's neither here nor there, which, also, describes my feelings of the new paperback illustrations. The ones that have a centaur on the cover of WRINKLE are much better than the current paperback illustrations. They are terrible, and for me totally go against the feelings I get from reading the book. But this is a very subjective experience -- as my review will tell you of my reading of L'Engle). When C. S. Lewis spoke of recieving stabs of joy and glimpses of some other realm beyond when he read Norse mythology, I can adequately say the same has happened to me upon these readings. This is the making of Myth, tempered with science fiction elements, at its finest for the contemporary scene of literature. Both books take you on a fascinating journey, and while I do prefer the first over the second, that does not mean the second is inferiour.

    A WIND IN THE DOOR, although labeled Children's Fiction, should be read by both children and adults. The conflict arises when Charles Wallace sees a drove of dragons by the twins' garden. Of course its not dragons, but it is indeed something. Whereas TIME did experiments on the theme of time, WIND goes the other way and instead concentrates on Size. Of course, the central character again is Meg, with the help of Calvin and Mr. Jenkins and two other characters, Proginoskes and Sporos. Who are the last two? Read and find out -- but both will take your imaginiation where its never been before.

    The themes of love again arises in this, but with a unique spin of "Naming". The villians this time around, although they were present in the previous volume just without a name, are the Ecthroi (or Ecthros, singular). They take the theme of nothingness (which shows up in LORD OF THE RINGS) and how they want to destroy creation. God created all of this universe and this creation for specific reasons, and we all have elements and things we are to experience and encounter of the universe, the Creation, are not according to God's order. This is a very dominant theme in this work.

    I really don't know how to describe the effect this book has had on me. Its like my imagination has been dipped in a brand new element of MYTH. C. S. Lewis spoke of such an effect when he read George MacDonald's PHANTASES, and while I am not comparing these books to MacDonald, the effect is somewhat similar. My mind goes into this, just shattered and put back together by the sheer beauty that goes in here. The modernists are right -- language is to inadequate to describe the effect these two books have had on me (read WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson to get the full gest of what I'm saying). Its books like these that make me wish things like this happened in my sphere of existence. Its books like this and Narnia and Earthsea that make me wonder why they can't happen to me. Don't get me wrong when I say this, but this has something that the other two I just Named do not. I love Narnia dearly, but L'Engle satisfies something in my psyche that I have not encountered in Narnia or anywhere else for that matter. Don't think I'm saying she's better than Lewis, because that's not what I'm saying. Narnia has things that this does not also. Its just there are things that are very unique to L'Engle that I have never encountered in a writer before. Its like I've been emersed into a world of myth. Again, while not comparing the two in content or in quality, I get this same longing, this same feeling when I read THE HOBBIT. There's a beauty there that strikes me to the core. But L'Engle is as different from Tolkien as she is from Lewis. All three have something to offer (and Peake does as well, who wrote GORMENGHAST) which give me that same longing and that same sense of joy and beauty, but they get this out of me from wildly different techniques. You probably don't understand what I'm trying to say. If I could kythe with you, then you would be able to understand. But that's alright. I know one thing.

    I've been changed.

    Mike London
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  • Sue
    4.0 out of 5 stars Ideal for older children (and adults!)
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 May 2016
    Charles Wallace is being been bullied at school; he's also sick, but nobody knows quite why...

    As with 'A Wrinkle in Time', this novel for children and teens is character-based fantasy, although the first half is mostly set in the real world.

    In the second part of the story, Charles' sister Meg has to solve some difficult problems, and ventures into a very unlikely place. The author mixes science, fantasy and spirituality in a novel that’s sometimes confusing but is very readable.

    Underneath the fantasy it’s a story about the battle of good and evil, about the power of love and friendship, and about doing what’s right. There are Christian values if one looks for them, but the book can be read from a secular point of view too.

    Ideal for any fluently reading child of about eight and upwards, or a good read-aloud for any age.
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  • Jbrough
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very Interesting!
    Reviewed in Canada on 8 January 2022
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    I learned a lot about mitochondria and farandolae! I also enjoyed A Wrinkle in Time! “I name you, Madeleine L’Engle!”
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  • Christophe
    5.0 out of 5 stars Etat impeccable
    Reviewed in France on 10 September 2020
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    Article arrivé dans les délais et dans un état impeccable (comme si nous l'avions acheté en librairie).
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
    Reviewed in India on 11 January 2019
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    I loved this book. People who have a keen interest in the different fictional theories about the particles should go for this one.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Loving book
    Reviewed in Italy on 26 December 2017
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    This book is a kind of therpy to those who have a depressed relative. It's also a book for kids, so wonderfull
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