A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L'Engle wrote a masterpiece -- even though she never thought "A Wrinkle in Time" was very good at all. As a matter of fact, very few publishers thought much of it either. Dozens passed on her fanciful science fiction work that ended up being a top seller in children's literature and a winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal for Literature. A Wrinkle in Time is part Chronicles of Narnia, part Orwell's 1984 and part Star Trek, but it also has the gift of being a "children's" book when read to kids, but with more thought-provoking "adult" issues sprinkled throughout -- part of the reason "A Wrinkle in Time" is on Rick's Reading List.