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A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet #3) 1978

By Madeleine L'Engle

  • Science fiction, Juvenile fiction, Space and time in literature, Space and time

The Murry and OKeefe families enlist the help of the unicorn, Gaudior, to save the world from imminent nuclear war. In this companion volume to A Wrinkle In Time (Newbery Award winner) and A Wind In The Door, fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo.

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