A Crazy Day with Cobras Merlin’s beloved penguin, Penny, has been put under a spell! It’sup to Jack and Annie to find the four things that will break thespell. When the magic tree house whisks them back to India overfour hundred years ago, they discover an amazing and exotic worldfilled with great danger. Dogs in the Dead of Night Jack and Annie must find a rare flower to save one of their bestfriends! So when the magic tree house whisks them back in time tothe Swiss Alps, they’re confused. How can they find a flower buriedunder ice and snow? Jack thinks their mission ishopeless! Abe Lincoln at Last! When the magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie back to Washington,D.C., in 1861, Jack can’t wait to meet Abraham Lincoln himself! Butthe new president is too busy to see them, as he is desperatelytrying to save a nation in crisis.When Jack and Annie ask for somemagical help, they go back even further in time to a mysteriouswoods. A Perfect Time for Pandas Jack and Annie are off to a villa
Ever since 1992, Mary Pope Osborne has been thrilling kidseverywhere with her delightfully exciting Magic Tree House series.The globetrotting escapades of time travelers Jack and Annie arebrimming with adventure and magic (not to mention some subtlyplaced lessons on history and geography). With a life likeOsborne's, it's only natural that she would be capable of bringingsuch wondrous stories to life. Osborne was brought up in a military family, and her parents'work led to a lifestyle marked by constant change. "By the time Iwas 15," she says on randomhouse.com, "I had lived in Oklahoma,Austria, Florida, and four different army posts in Virginia andNorth Carolina." While many kids would probably feel disoriented bysuch constant change, Osborne wouldn't have had it any other way."Moving was never traumatic for me, but staying in one place was.When my dad finally retired to a small town in North Carolina, Inearly went crazy with boredom. I craved the adventure and changingscenery of our military lif
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