# A Wrinkle in Time

**Author:** Madeleine L'Engle
**Lexile:** 740L
**Grade range:** Grades 5–7
**Age range:** 10–13
**First published:** 1962
**Page count:** 232
**Genre:** Children's Science Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780312367541`
**ISBN-10:** `0312367546`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/a-wrinkle-in-time
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Twelve-year-old Meg Murry, her gifted brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin travel by tesseract across dimensions to rescue Meg's missing scientist father from a controlling cosmic force. L'Engle's Newbery-winning novel is a common 5th-6th grade science-fiction introduction.

## Themes

- good vs evil
- scientific imagination
- individuality
- family love
- conformity

## Content notes

- frightening imagery
- mind control

Common Sense Media age recommendation: 10+

## Where this book is assigned

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · 5th grade · Massachusetts — [source: MA ELA Framework grade 5 aligned text](https://www.doe.mass.edu/)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: Common Core aligned summer-reading list — rising 6th grade](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 6-8 exemplar](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)

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