A Wrinkle in Time/The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by Madeleine L’Engle/C.S. Lewis

In this fantasy/science fiction novel, teenager Meg Murray, her brother, and her friend travel through time and space to rescue her scientist father. L’Engle offers her readers witty, humorous, and courageous characters engaged in adventures that stretch the imagination and delight the senses. A Wrinkle in Time emphasizes love as able to conquer all, even the most unimaginable evil.

This fantasy, the first book in the seven-volume Chronicles of Narnia, has been described as a Christian allegory of the New Testament, and features traces of Greek and Roman mythology. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe tells of four children who, one by one, stumble through the wardrobe into the Narnian forest in which animals converse with humans and magic abounds. Themes include betrayal, faith, forgiveness, death, evil, weakness, strength, and trust.

About the Series:

Novel/Drama curriculum units contain complete lesson plans with preliminary and follow-up work, teacher notes with plot summary, background, and rationale, ready-to-use worksheets, and suggested answers for student questions. These study guides encourage the development of thinking, reading, speaking, research, and writing skills as well as critical thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.