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Madeleine L'Engle (/ ˈ l ɛ ŋ ɡ əl /; November 29, 1918 [1] – September 6, 2007) [2] was an American writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time.
A Wrinkle in Time: Madeleine L'Engle: Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her younger brother Charles Wallace Murry, and her friend Calvin O'Keefe set out on a journey through time and space to rescue her missing father. This is the first book in L'Engle's Time Quintet and the basis for the Ava DuVernay film. 1962 Escape Attempt: Strugatsky Brothers
Rewind received mixed reviews. Critic Don D'Ammassa called the book "entertaining but less original than Sleator's other novels." [3] The novel was panned by Kirkus Reviews, who also called the premise unoriginal and wrote that the story's "internal logic seems more convenient than consistent."
The author of 'Book Lovers' and 'Happy Place' on Emma Straub, 'A Wrinkle in Time,' and the Book That Made Her Laugh out Loud.
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The novel grew out of a short story, "Intergalactic P.S. 3", first published as a pamphlet for Children's Book Week in 1970. In this early version of the narrative, Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who and Mrs Which from A Wrinkle in Time send Charles Wallace, Meg and Calvin to a school on another planet, where Proginoskes and a conifer seed version of Sporos are among their classmates.
On April 23, 1992, a scientific team led by astrophysicist George Smoot announced that it had found the primordial "seeds" from which the universe has grown. They analyzed data gathered by NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer satellite and discovered the oldest known objects in the universe—so called "wrinkles" in time—thus finding a long-anticipated missing piece in the Big Bang model.
Rewind symbol, a media control symbol indicating tape rewind or analogous operations Rewind (C) , in the C programming language, an input/output function Rewind slitting or roll slitting; the process for slitting down large rolls of material into smaller rolls