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Author L'Engle, Madeleine, author

Title A swiftly tilting planet / Madeleine L'Engle
Published New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1978]
New York, N.Y. : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978
©1978

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Description 278 pages ; 22 cm
Series Time quintet ; 4
L'Engle, Madeleine. Time quintet ; 3
Time quintet (Farrar Straus Giroux) ; 4
Contents In this fateful hour -- All heaven with its power -- Sun with its brightness -- Snow with its whiteness -- Fire with all the strength it hath -- Lightning with its rapid wrath -- Winds with their swiftness -- The Sea with its deepness -- Rocks with their steepness -- Earth with its starkness -- All these I place -- Between myself and the powers of darkness
Summary In this volume, fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. They are not alone in their quest. Charles Wallace's sister, Meg, grown and expecting her first child, but still able to enter her brother's thoughts and emotions by "kything", goes with him in spirit. Charles Wallace must face the ultimate test of his faith and his will as he is sent within four people from another time, there to search for a way to avert the tragedy threatening them all
Notes For adolescents
Interest age level : Ages 11 and up
850 Lexile
Audience Young Adult
Notes Accelerated Reader 5.2
Reading Counts! 6.4
National Book Award winner, children's books (paperback), 1980
Subject Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction.
Gifted teenagers -- Juvenile fiction.
Good and evil -- Juvenile fiction.
Murry family (Fictitious characters) -- Juvenile fiction.
Nuclear warfare -- Juvenile fiction.
Science fiction -- Juvenile fiction.
Space and time -- Juvenile fiction.
Time travel -- Juvenile fiction.
Unicorns -- Juvenile fiction.
Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
Gifted teenagers -- Fiction.
Good and evil -- Fiction.
Murrry family (Fictitious characters) -- Fiction
Nuclear warfare -- Fiction.
Science fiction.
Space and time -- Fiction.
Time travel -- Fiction.
Unicorns -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Science fiction.
Fiction.
LC no. 78009648
ISBN 0374373620
9780374373627