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Average Customer Rating: 
A Wind in the Door >
Customer Review #1:
 One of Her Best Novels!
This book was incredible. It acts as a beginning and an introduction to concepts from later books, but is also a great story in itself. Meg Murry is once again mixed into a quest involving transitions through time, space, size, and form. Charles Wallace is ill, and Meg learns from a cherub called Proginoskes that it is being caused by forces of evil. She must complete three tasks in order to save him from the Echthroi that are causing his sickness. Her friend Calvin ends up joining the group of Meg and Proginoskes, and they go to Charles Wallaces school to see his principal. There, they stumble upon the first task: Name the correct Mr. Jenkins(the principal) out of three, two of whom are Echthroi. She completes this task, only to shoot off on the next along with Proginoskes, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins. They eventually end up in one of Charles Wallaces mitochondria, trying to rid it of the Echthroi. To find out if they succeed, read the book. This is a great novel, with lots of unexpected turns and twists, and anyone who likes fantasy, science fiction, or suspense will love this.
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Customer Review #2:
A journy in time and space, a quest to save the world.
To be Xed means to be nothing. To be named means that you are. For you to be Xed, which you should not desire, you are unsure if who you really are, making yourself vulnerable enough to be shattered by the Echtroi, the evil forces that destroy. In A Wind in the Door, Meg Murry has gone through both. She is a namer and has named Mr. Jenkins, her shy yet strict principal of the high school she attends. She was almost Xed by the Echtroi-Jenkins, and was named by the cherubim companion, Proginoskes. Meg Murry was accompanied by more then the cherubim and Mr. Jenkins. Her youngest brother Charles Wallace, a young boy with the explicable gift of being able to read his mothers and sisters mind, develops a lethal disease. He and his mother, a noted biochemist, believe that it is his mitochondria, which is the production center for the molecules (farandolae) that supply energy for the cell. As Meg and Charles Wallace walk through the twins, their other two brothers Sandy and Dennys, vegetable garden Charles Wallace tells Meg that he has seen a drive of dragons. At first Meg does not believe him, but when she comes upon the teacher Blajeny she realizes that Charles Wallace, in a sense, was not wrong. His alleged drive of dragons was actually the cherubim Proginoskes, a single creature who looks like a group of many cherubs. And of course, Calvin OKeefe, Megs good (hm . . . more then good) friend from their and Charles Wallaces previous quests, naturally joins the expedition. Blajeny the teacher pair Proginoskes and Meg, and together they must complete three tasks to save Charles. As Charles fights to survive, Meg, Calvin and Proginoskes are shrunk down to size so much that they journey inside one of Charles mitochondria. It is then that Calvin meets his partner Sporos, a fickle farandolae that refuses to work with Calvin and Deepen. For Sporos, deepening means the end of his fun, but in reality (the reality of the book) for him to deepen means that Deepened Sporos will reproduce more farandolae so the cell (which is where the mitochondria is located) will be able to produce more energy. Soon they, Meg, Proginoskes, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins, the principal that Meg had earlier named, realize that an Echtroi has come into the mitochondria with them. The Echtroi had taken on Mr. Jenknins body - like they had in previous perils of the book - and are attempting to prevent Sporos and the other farandolae from deepening. The real Mr. Jenkins gives himself up to force Sporos to deepen. Sporos then realizes how important it is for him to deepen and he obeys. As her third task (for the other two were to name Mr. Jenkins and help or force Sporos to Deepen) Meg was to save Mr. Jenkins from the Ecthroi and luckily she succeeds. In completing their tasks, Meg, Proginoskes, Mr. Jenkins and Calvin return to their world and are rewarded with the fact that they had saved Charles Wallace. Hey, its just another day in the lives of the Murry family.
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Customer Review #3:
 Not My Type of Literature
(...)BR>What I could get out of the book was that the star charcater Charles Wallace was sick, badly ill, and his sister, Meg, is really worried for him, and makes it clear she would do anything to help him get better. Then, the one thing I liked most of this book, the plot immediatley comes to play as Charles takes Meg out into a field near their home and tells her there are a drive of dragons somewhere. But at first Meg doesnt see anything. But later on she actually sees this drive of dragons is truly a creature named Progo(well the names longer than that but this is what Meg calls him throughout the story.) Hes a science-fiction masterpiece with many wings and eyes. This creature sparks a journey that involves Meg, her supposed boyfriend named Calvin, and Progo itself as they are assigned to help save Charles from fatally evil beings called the Echthroi, who want to destroy Charles, as well as the world itself.
This book just wasnt my type of literature, but I didnt hate it. I just wasnt into the novel; I didnt feel any sort of connection like you should in a book.
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