Meg Murray, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their mother are having a midnight snack on a dark and stormy night when an unearthly stranger appears at their door. He claims to have been blown off course, and goes on to tell them that there is such a thing as a "tesseract," which, if you didn't know, is a wrinkle in time.
Meg's father had been experimenting with time-travel when he suddenly disappeared. Will Meg, Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin outwit the forces of evil as they search through space for their father?
Just thirteen, Charlotte Doyle is a proper young lady and, like most upper-class young women in 1832 England, she has led a very sheltered life. That life, as well as what she views as proper, is going to change very drastically during her voyage aboard the Seahawk, a tall sailing ship.
Leaving Liverpool, England, for her new home in Providence, Rhode Island, Charlotte finds herself the only passenger on the ship. She’s not worried though; Captain Jaggery is a perfect gentleman and will protect her against the rabble that is the crew. During the voyage, the African sailor Zachariah warns her about the captain. She doesn’t believe a single word of the horrible stories—she is positive that the gentlemanly Captain is incapable of such cruel behavior!
When she discovers a pistol and a round robin (a document signed in such a way that it is impossible to see who started it), she informs the Captain. The Captain brutally stops what he considers a mutiny and orders fifty lashes for Zachariah. When Charlotte tries to stop him, the Captain’s face is slashed by the whip, and he savagely whips the African sailor to death.
Filled with guilt, Charlotte takes his place on the crew, vowing to reveal the Captain’s cruelty when they land. Now sleeping in the disgusting crew quarters, climbing the deadly rat lines up and down the tall masts, and facing a hurricane, Charlotte wins the crews’ respect and the Captain’s hatred. When the first mate is found stabbed, the Captain accuses her of the murder and sentences her to be hanged.
Charlotte refuses to acknowledge Jaggery’s orders and takes matters into her own hands. Hiding in the ship’s hold, the horribly battered Zachariah is there to help her. In this brutal man’s world, can this young girl set things right?
Brian is the only survivor of a plane crash in the Canadian Wilderness. Equipped with a hatchet given to him by his father and a small survival pack he finds when he returns to the crash site, he must find a way to survive the harsh Canadian winter. Without any signs of rescue, Brian learns to listen to the world and the animals around him to get through days of near starvation and freezing cold while co-existing with wolves and other animals made dangerous by the extreme winter weather. Leaving behind his self involved way of thinking about his parents, He finds himself in the days of loneliness remembering and missing unique moments with them and the life he left behind, as he learns and matures to become resilient and self-reliant
