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Charles Wallace Murry is old enough to start school, but his sister, Meg, and their friend Calvin know he isn't cut out for school on Earth - Meg worries that he'll be more misunderstood than ever. Luckily, with the help of the three celestial creatures - Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which - there is another place where Charles Wallace can get his education: Intergalactic P.S. 3, a public school in a completely different galaxy.

From the moment Henry Porcher first sees Ilsa Brandes, he worships her. Despite controversy surrounding the young girl, Henry is drawn to her, a fascination that turns into a lifelong infatuation. As the years pass, Ilsa’s memory never leaves him, not until the day he returns to their sleepy Southern hometown and renews their childhood friendship. Henry watches as she becomes a wife, then a mother, then a widow, irrevocably changed by tragedy. This rare and sought-after novel is a portrait of a remarkable woman bound by both the stifling conventions of her time and place, and her own sense of honor and purpose.

The bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time takes a fantastical look at the childhood of Jesus in two allegories set in an Egyptian village. In “Pakko’s Camel,” Yehoshuah, the poor son of a carpenter, befriends Pakko, the arrogant son of a rich merchant. Yehoshuah cares for Pakko’s camel and shares with him the knowledge of the precious gifts he received from three wise men. In “The Sphinx at Dawn,” Yehoshuah and his camel journey into the desert, where they come across the monstrous, hungry Sphinx. Intrigued and unafraid, Yehoshuah endeavors to answer the Sphinx’s riddles.

Zehn Jahre nach den Abenteuern von "Der Riss im Raum" kommen die Murrays an Thanksgiving zusammen. Meg und Calvin haben in der Zwischenzeit geheiratet, die Zwillinge studieren und Charles Wallace forscht weiterhin mit seinem Vater an der Tesserung. Doch die Familienidylle wird getrübt, als Megs Vater einen Anruf vom Präsidenten erhält: Eine politische Situation scheint kurz vor der Eskalation zu stehen und ein Atomkrieg bedroht die Erde. Charles Wallace trifft im Garten seiner Familie auf das geflügelte Einhorn Gaudior, mit dem er eine Reise durch die Zeit unternimmt, um die Erde zu retten.