Children's Fiction

A Swiftly Tilting Planet

by Madeleine L'Engle · Time Quintet series

Charles Wallace is sent backward and forward through time on a unicorn, tasked with preventing a dictator's birth and saving the future from a might-have-been. L'Engle weaves Celtic myth, alternate history, and quantum uncertainty into a story about whether changing one life can redirect the whole species.

Time Quintet in reading order

• 1. A Wrinkle in Time — Madeleine L'Engle
• 2. A Wind in the Door — Madeleine L'Engle
• 3. A Swiftly Tilting Planet — Madeleine L'Engle
• 4. Many Waters — Madeleine L'Engle
• 5. An Acceptable Time — Madeleine L'Engle

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