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Mrs Whatsit
Meg Murry can't sleep during a storm and sneaks down to the kitchen, where her little brother Charles Wallace is already up making cocoa.
Mrs Who
Meg and Charles Wallace visit the old haunted house where Mrs Whatsit apparently lives, and they meet another strange woman called Mrs Who, who speaks almost entirely in quotation…
Mrs Which
The three children meet all three Mrs W's together for the first time. Mrs Which is the most powerful of the trio and barely materializes fully, existing as a shimmer rather than…
The Black Thing
The group arrives on a planet called Uriel, which is beautiful and peaceful. The Mrs W's take on their true forms as radiant winged creatures.
The Tesseract
The group stops on a gray, two-dimensional planet called Camazotz's neighbor to rest and receive gifts from the Mrs W's before the real danger begins.
The Happy Medium
The three Mrs. W's take the children to visit the Happy Medium, a cheerful woman with a crystal ball who shows them Earth from space so they can see the Dark Thing surrounding it.
The Man with Red Eyes
The children arrive on Camazotz and find a planet of eerie, enforced sameness. Every house, every child, every movement is perfectly synchronized.
The Transparent Column
Charles Wallace, now controlled by IT, leads Meg and Calvin through CENTRAL Central Intelligence. He is cold, mocking, and tries to convince them that surrendering to IT would mak…
IT
Mr. Murry tessers the group away from Charles Wallace and lands them on a dark, cold, nearly airless moon.
Absolute Zero
Meg is near death from the cold when strange, furry creatures called the Beasts find the group and carry her to safety.
Aunt Beast
Meg washes up on the planet Ixchel, badly injured from the tesseract. She is found and cared for by large, tentacled creatures who are blind but sense the world through touch and…
The Foolish and the Weak
Meg tessers back to Camazotz alone to confront IT and free Charles Wallace. She finds her brother completely absorbed by IT's control.
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