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A Swiftly Tilting Planet
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A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Written by Madeleine L'EngleAuthor Alerts:  Random House will alert you to new works by Madeleine L'Engle
| Yearling | Trade Paperback | December 1980 | $6.50 | 978-0-440-40158-2 (0-440-40158-5)
Also available as an unabridged audio CD and an unabridged audiobook download.
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ABOUT THIS BOOK

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?


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NOMINEE 1986 - Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award