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Violence
Barely any
Some historical violence in the various time periods Charles visits; mild for the YA register
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate: the nuclear war stakes and the weight of altering history create genuine cosmic tension
What this book is about
On Thanksgiving night, a nuclear war threatens to erupt in South America. Fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace, with the help of Meg and a unicorn named Gaudior, travels through time within different people's lives across centuries to find the one moment where a different choice would change the chain of events. L'Engle's third Time Quintet novel is more meditative than its predecessors, richly grounded in Celtic mythology and the Power of naming.
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