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A Swiftly Tilting Planet

By: Madeleine L'Engle
Narrated by: Jennifer Ehle
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The third book in Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time Quintet. Read the ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy series that has delighted children for over 60 years!

* “An intricately woven fantasy.” —Booklist, starred review

When Charles Wallace Murry shouts out in desperation an ancient rune meant to ward off the dark, a radiant creature appears. It is Gaudior, unicorn and time traveler. Charles Wallace and Gaudior must travel into the past on the winds of time to try to find a Might-Have-Been—a moment in the past when the entire course of events leading to the present can be changed, and the future of Earth—this small, swiftly tilting planet—saved.

A Wrinkle in Time Quintet
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wind in the Door
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Many Waters
An Acceptable Time Classics Fantasy & Magic Fiction Literature & Fiction National Book Award Science Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Time Travel

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I feel like Madeline L'Engle is playing mind-games with me. For her third book, she took away everything I love about her previous Time Quintet books. Meg has become ordinary. Gone is her awkwardness and anger. She's dared to grow up and has become acceptably beautiful, blossoming into a perfectly pleasant, evenly-keeled woman. Gone are the unexpected Cherubim, Farandolae and shape-shifting Echthroi, we now have a perfectly ordinary unicorn. But despite taking away what I thought held me enthralled in her books, the subversion of expectation does not ruin the fact that Madeline L'Engle is a great story-teller.

Spinning a multi-generational tale, backed against the words of Patrick's Rune, the story explores a lot of themes which may in a today's context be thought of as "too adult" for children's books. The things that are kept hidden from children so as to preserve their innocence.

I really hope to be able to read this series to my children one day.

Intriguing multi-generational story

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Narrator was fabulous. Great story & series for all ages! I highly recommend!

Excellent!! MUST LISTEN/READ!

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A brilliant ending to a story that is deeper than you expect it to be. Enjoy the journey- it's a good one (;

Exceptional

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The story draws you in and is strangely relevant to any time. Wonderful prose and vivid descriptions carry you along into the hearts of the characters.

Intricate story weaving

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"Amanda is Sanskrit." False. Amanda means going or intending to be loved in Latin. As for the book, it was good.

Latin is wrong.

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