Midnight on the Moon
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Mary Pope Osborne, author of
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WOW! You have an imagination like no other.
âAdam W.
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âBen M.
I think you are the real Morgan le Fay. There is always magic in your books.
âErica Y.
One day I was really bored and I didn't want to read â¦Â I looked in your book. I read a sentence, and it was interesting. So I read some more, until the book was done. It was so good I read more and more. Then I had read all of your books, and now I hope you write lots more.
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I first came across your Magic Tree House series when my son brought one home â¦Â I have since introduced this great series to my class. They have absolutely fallen in love with these books! â¦Â My students are now asking me for more independent reading time to read them. Your stories have inspired even my most struggling readers.
âM. Payne
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âR. Gale
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Text copyright © 1996 by Mary Pope Osborne.
Illustrations copyright © 1996 by Sal Murdocca.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York,
and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Osborne, Mary Pope. Midnight on the moon / by Mary Pope Osborne;
illustrated by Sal Murdocca.
p. cm. â (Magic tree house; #8) “A first stepping stone book.”
SUMMARY:
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to a moon base in the future where they continue to search for the fourth thing they need to free their friend Morgan from the magician's spell.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89425-1
[1. MoonâFiction. 2. Time travelâFiction. 3. MagicâFiction. 4. Science fiction.]
I. Murdocca, Sal, ill. II. Title. III. Series: Osborne, Mary Pope. Magic tree house
series; #8. PZ7.O81167Mi 1996 [Fic]âdc20 96-17298
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Prologue
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1. By Moonlight
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2. Space Motel
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3. Open Sesame!
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4. Moon Rabbits
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5. Hang On!
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6. High Jump
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7. The Moon Man
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9. Morgan
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One summer day in Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, a mysterious tree house appeared in the woods.
Eight-year-old Jack and his seven-year-old sister, Annie, climbed into the tree house.
The tree house was filled with books and it was
magic
. It could go any place that was in a book. All Jack and Annie had to do was to point to a picture and wish to go there.
They visited dinosaurs, knights, an Egyptian queen, pirates, ninjas, and the Amazon rain forest.
Along the way, they discovered that the tree house belonged to Morgan le Fay. Morgan was a magical librarian from the time of King Arthur. She traveled through time and space, gathering books for her library.
One day, Jack and Annie found a note that said Morgan was under a spell. Jack and Annie set out in the magic tree house to find four special things that would free her.
With the help of a mouse named Peanut, Jack and Annie found the first thing in old Japan, the second in the Amazon rain forest, and the third in the Ice Age.
Now Jack, Annie, and Peanut are ready to find the last thing â¦Â in
Midnight on the Moon
.
“Jack!” whispered a voice.
Jack opened his eyes. He saw a figure in the moonlight.
“Wake up. Get dressed.” It was his sister, Annie.
Jack turned on his lamp. He rubbed his eyes.
Annie was standing beside his bed. She wore jeans and a sweatshirt.
“Let's go to the tree house,” she said.
“What time is it?” asked Jack. He put on his glasses.
“Don't look at your clock,” said Annie.
Jack looked at his clock. “Oh, man,” he said. “It's midnight. It's too dark.”
“No, it isn't. The moon makes it bright enough to see,” said Annie.
“Wait till morning,” said Jack.
“Noânow,” said Annie. “We have to find the fourth M thing. I have a feeling that the full moon might help us.”
“That's nuts,” said Jack. “I want to sleep.”
“You can sleep when we come back home,” said Annie. “No time will have passed.”
Jack sighed. “Oh, brother,” he said.
But he got out of bed.
“Yay!” whispered Annie. “Meet you at the back door.” She tiptoed out of Jack's room.
Jack yawned. He pulled on his jeans and sneakers and a sweatshirt. He put his notebook and pencil into his backpack. Then he crept down the stairs.
Annie opened the back door. Quietly, they stepped outside.
“Waitâ” said Jack. “We need a flashlight.”
“No, we don't. I told youâthe moon will light our way,” said Annie. And she took off.
Jack sighed, then followed her.
Annie was right, thought Jack. The moon was so bright that he could see his shadow. Everything seemed washed with silver.