A Wrinkle in Time

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language.

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.

A Wrinkle in Time, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.

Meg’s father has disappeared and nobody in the family knows where he is. One day, Meg and her brother Charles, meet three strange women- Mrs. Who, Mrs. Whatsit and Mrs. Which. Meg hopes that they can help her find her father, but it is a very strange journey.