In order to protect them, Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the ten years since their parents disappeared but now they learn that they have special powers, a prophesied quest to find a magical book, and a fearsome enemy.

Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. It was a dark and stormy night Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen...