Books like A Wrinkle in Time
A gawky middle-school girl, her genius little brother, and a boy from school are pulled across the universe by three old women to find her missing physicist father in a totalitarian elsewhere.
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Spin
One night the stars go out all at once, and Tyler Dupree and his friends Jason and Diane grow up beneath a mysterious barrier that has sealed the Earth off from the universe, while time outside races by.
Contact
Ellie Arroway, a radio astronomer, picks up a signal from the star Vega that turns out to carry the plans for a machine, and the world has to decide whether to build it and who should go.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Four children evacuated to a country house find a wardrobe that opens into a snow-bound country held in perpetual winter by a witch, and a Christ-haunted lion who is coming back to undo her.
The Hollow Places
Newly divorced, Kara moves in with her uncle above his Glory to God Museum of Natural Wonders, Curiosities and Taxidermy in a small North Carolina town, and finds a hole in the wall that opens onto somewhere else.
Shikasta
Reports and documents from the emissaries of Canopus, a benevolent galactic empire, on the troubled planet Shikasta, which is Earth.
The Giver
A boy in a seemingly perfect community discovers that the sameness everyone lives under conceals a horrifying truth about what was sacrificed for stability.
The Iron King
Just as she turns sixteen, Meghan Chase learns that her little brother has been taken and replaced with a changeling, and that she is the half-human daughter of a faery king, and she follows her best friend Robbie into the Nevernever to bring him home.
Fairy Tale
Seventeen-year-old Charlie Reade rescues his reclusive neighbour Howard Bowditch after a fall, and while caring for the old man and his ageing German shepherd, Radar, he learns that the locked shed in the backyard opens onto another world.
The End of Eternity
A technician in a time-altering organisation makes unauthorised changes to history to save a woman he loves, threatening the existence of eternity itself.
Recursion
A New York detective chasing an outbreak of false memories crosses paths with the neuroscientist whose machine for preserving memory has started letting people rewrite their pasts, and the timeline with them.
Ender's Game
A gifted child is recruited to a military academy in space, where he must train to fight an alien invasion that may already be lost.
The Neverending Story
A bullied German schoolboy steals a book and reads himself into the empty country of Fantastica, where the Childlike Empress is dying because no one is still imagining her.