Young teenager Meg Murry is a troubled but gifted youth. She greatly misses her father, a scientist missing for years. One day, she (with brother Charles Wallace and friend Calvin O'Keefe) meets an eccentric trio of beings intent on helping her. She learns that her father has used a tesseract to travel through space and visit distant worlds. He's learned a horrible truth- a great darkness, calling itself IT, is intent on making all conform to his image of a perfect universe by controlling all minds and making everyone precisely the same, doing everything 'just so'. Fighting against this, Meg's dad is trapped on a world controlled by IT, and it's up to Meg, Charles, and Calvin to do something about it. How can they fight such great power?
The first of a 5-book series, I mostly enjoyed this award-winning children's literature classic. I liked several of the messages in the book (won't share them all to avoid spoiling them)- one quote that stuck with me was “Like and equal are not the same thing at all.” It was a quick read, and I want to know how it ends, but I don't feel compelled to read the next four volumes to find out.
Rating: A-
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