October Meeting: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

A Wrinkle in Time is a young adult science fantasy novel written by American author Madeleine L'Engle. First published in 1962, the book won the Newbery Medal, the Sequoyah Book Award and the Lewis Caroll Shelf Award. The main characters – Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, and Calvin O'Keefe – embark on a journey through space and time as they endeavor to rescue the Murrys' father, a scientist who discovered a new planet and used the concept known as a tesseract to travel there.

The novel offers a glimpse into the war between light and darkness, and good and evil, as the young characters mature into adolescents on their journey, and wrestles with questions of spirituality and purpose, as the characters are often thrown into conflicts of love, divinity, and goodness.

A Wrinkle in Time has been frequently challenged and opposed by parents and religious groups for various reasons, including concerns that it mixes science and religion in an unorthodox way, undermines Christianity, or teaches occult practices. The book is notable for drawing criticism from both sides of the religious spectrum, with some arguing it is too religious and others that it is not religious enough. Despite these challenges, efforts to remove the book from schools have largely been unsuccessful, and it remains a frequently challenged but widely read novel.

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