_A Wrinkle in Time_ by Madeleine L'Engle
Yes, I just read it for the first time. There's a startling number of classic books that escaped me in my childhood, so I've been spending some time running them down. (I haven't finished _The Phantom Tollbooth_, either; that's on the list, too
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Peter sellers did a movie called "Being There" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/
The lead character is a simpleton and a bit of an idiot, who basically spouts TV phrases, and all the rich, cunning folks around him continually assume he's terribly important and smart. Hilarity ensues. But by the end of the movie, he is walking along a lake and just ups and decides to stroll off across the water.
My friends mom, who saw that with us was incensed and had the movie ruined for her, until I turned it around by stating that the lead character is also unreasonably lucky, and so he just walked out across a flooded pier or something and it was our turn in the audience to mistake him as something profound.
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Also, WTF with not reading Wrinkle. WTF. OMG.
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I spend too much time over on Facebook. I kept looking for the Like button on his comment till I realized I was on LJ. Grr...
If you're looking for good kids books, print out the list of Newbery Award winners and work your way through. You'll end up reading lots of books you probably wouldn't have picked up otherwise, and they're all worth your time.
"The Whipping Boy" - read it!
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