When beginning A Wrinkle in time, I had heard great reviews on it, and after having read it, I agree! Although I am not sure what time Madeleine was writing about, for Charles Wallace (the younger brother of the protagonist, Meg Murry) who is only going into grade school in the next year seems highly sophisticated. In the beginning of the book you find Charles Wallace preparing sandwiches, meaning he would have to handle with a knife. Now, I don't know about your family, but if I were that young my mother would never let me handle a knife that young.
I'm unsure about another use of words in the beginning of A Wrinkle in time. When Meg is walking home in the first chapter (or maybe it was a flashback...), one of her peers taunts her by saying: "Please Meg, we aren't in Grammar School anymore". I am curious as to what grammar school is, although by the name I take that is another name for Preschool or Kindergarten.
Madeleine wrote with a beautiful style in this book, but I can tell she wrote it for children of a lower reading level after reading other books she had written (e.i. The Arm of the Starfish). She made simple language work for her, and although restraining her vocabulary, she came out with a book that puts her writing to glory. - Rose
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