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A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L’Engle

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine Engle
Call Number: Foley 2nd Floor Curriculum PZ3.L46 W74 1962

ISBN: 9780440498056

Publication Date: 1962

Meg Murray, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their mother are having a midnight snack on a dark and stormy night when an unearthly stranger appears at their door. He claims to have been blown off course, and goes on to tell them that there is such a thing as a "tesseract," which, if you didn't know, is a wrinkle in time. Meg's father had been experimenting with time-travel when he suddenly disappeared. Will Meg, Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin outwit the forces of evil as they search through space for their father?

Why was this book challenged?

Reasons: Religion

Carnegie Mellon University collected several instances where A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle was challenged in schools and libraries for "blurring lines between good and evil" and for alleged religious controversies.
Published in 1962, A Wrinkle in Time was #90 on the American Library Associations Top 100 Banned Challenged Books of 2000-2009.
Visit the Frequently Asked Questions, to see why books are censored and to learn more about the differences between a challenge and a ban.

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