A New York Times Bestseller A Newbery Medal Award-winner Time Quintet Series (Book 1) It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. "Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I''ll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract. A story of adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O''Keefe who are involved in a search for Meg''s father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.