A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

A Wrinkle in Time

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Book Information

Publication Date: January 1, 1962


Reading Level: Lexile Measure 740L, Scholastic Guided Reading Level W


Interest Level: Grades 5 - 8


Major Awards: 1963 Newbery Medal Winner


Number of Pages: 228 pages


Approximate Word Count: 78,080 words -- The average reader will spend 5 hours and 12 minutes reading A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet) at 250 words per minute.*


Audible Book Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins


Book Themes: Power of Love, Value of Individuality, Good vs Evil


Genre: Children's Literature, Fantasy, Quest


Setting: Planets of Earth, Uriel, the Happy Medium planet, Camazotz, and Ixchel


Important Quote: Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.


First Line: It was a dark and stormy night.


Point of View: Third Person (Limited Omniscient)


*Estimate from Reading Length

 

Vocabulary List

aberration
abrupt
accord
alternative
annihilate
antagonistic
appalling
apprehension
appropriate
assuage
belligerent
bilious
bravado
brusquely
canned
cleave
compulsion
connotations
contradict
corporeal
deliberately
delinquent
despair
despairingly
despondency
devour
diction

dogged
dubious
emanate
ephemeral
fallible
frivoling
function
gallivanting
gambol
indignant
ineffable
inexorable
intone
intone
liniment
malignant
miasma
monolith
morass
myopic
obliquely
omnipotent
pedantic
peremptory
pinioned
precipitously
probe

prodigious
propitious
pungent
raptly
sadist
scornfully
scudded
seethe
serene
sinister
sonorous
spindly
supine
synthetic
talisman
tangible
temporal
tenacity
tendril
tentative
tractable
transparent
trepidation
vulnerable
wheedle
wraith
writhe

 

Links to Resources and Teaching Ideas

A Wrinkle in Time

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