A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Meg Murry O'Keefe and her family are just sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner when her father gets a phone call from the White House about a madman's threat of nuclear war. Only an old Irish rune seems to hold a clue to averting worldwide disaster, and and when Meg's brother Charles Wallace, now fifteen, recites it, a radiant white beast--the unicorn Gaudior--appears to join him on his quest. But there are only twenty-four hours in which to stop tragedy from occurring. Can Charles Wallace, with the help of Gaudior and Meg, possibly succeed?

Madeleine L'Engle is the author of many acclaimed and popular books for children and adults, including novels, collections of essays, plays, and poetry. She is perhaps best known for the Newbery Award winner A Wrinkle in Time and its companions, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and Many Waters. She has also written An Acceptable Time, which follows the further adventures of the Murry family. A Ring of Endless Light, featuring Vicky Austin, was a Newbery Honor Book. Other books in the Austin series are Meet the Austins, The Moon by Night, The Young Unicorns, and Troubling a Star. Madeleine L'Engle is also the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award, which honors her lifetime contribution to books for young adults. Madeleine L'Engle lives and works in New York City.