Fantasy & Sci-Fi Kids' Book Review

A Wind in the Door                         by Madeleine L'Engle "There are," Charles Wallace announces, "dragons in the twins vegetable garden. Or there were. They've moved to the north pasture now."

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So begins A Wind in the Door, a novel in which Meg Murry, her young brother Charles Wallace, and their mutual friend Calvin O' Keefe are once again spirited away from their country home into yet another intergalactic science fantasy adventure. In this sequel to A Wrinkle in Time, the inseperable threesome encounter a drive of dragons (which are really a singular cherubim named Proginoskes), become enrolled in a universal school run by a nine foot tall Teacher named Blajeny, witness the birth of a star, and dive into the microscopically small world of a mitochondrion. All the while, Meg and Calvin are struggling to save Charles' life from the Etchroi--a terrible disease which is not only trying to kill off the cells in Charles Wallace's lungs, but is also snuffing out stars in galaxies millions of light years away.     It's another edge of your seat thriller from Madeleine L'Engle, a gifted author amazingly capable of transporting her readers from a homey world of vegetable gardens and peanut-butter-and jelly-sandwhiches into the cosmic realms of quantum physics and extrasolar adventure. Ages: 9+ Infinity

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