Night of the Ninjas
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Authors: Mary Pope Osborne
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Text copyright © 1995 by Mary Pope Osborne.
Illustrations copyright © 1995 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.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Osborne, Mary Pope. Night of the Ninjas / by Mary Pope Osborne;
illustrated by Sal Murdocca.
p. cm. â (The Magic tree house series; #5) “A First stepping stone book.”
SUMMARY:
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back in time to feudal Japan where the siblings learn about the ways of the Ninja.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89422-0
[1. Time travelâFiction. 2. NinjaâFiction. 3. JapanâFiction.]
I. Murdocca, Sal, ill. II. Title. III. Series: Osborne, Mary Pope.
Magic tree house series; #5.
PZ7.O81167Ni 1995 [Fic]âdc20 94-29142
Random House, Inc. New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland
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For Penn Sultan
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. They found that it was filled with books.
Jack and Annie soon discovered that the tree house was magic. It could take them to the places in the books. All they had to do was to point to a picture and wish to be there.
Jack and Annie visited the time of dinosaurs, old England, ancient Egypt, and a pirate ship.
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.
Jack and Annie are about to start a whole new adventure â¦Â in
Night of the Ninjas
.
“Let's look again, Jack,” said Annie.
Jack and Annie were walking home from the library. The path went right by the Frog Creek woods.
Jack sighed. “We looked this morning,” he said. “We looked the day before. And the day before that.”
“Then you don't have to come,” said Annie. “I'll go look by myself.”
She took off into the woods.
“Annie, wait!” Jack called. “It's almost
dark! We have to get home!”
But Annie had disappeared among the trees.
Jack stared at the woods. He was starting to lose hope. Maybe he would never see Morgan again.
Weeks had passed. And there had not been one sign of Morgan le Fay. Nor had there been one sign of her magic tree house.
“Jack!”
Annie called from the woods. “
It's back!
”
Oh, she's just pretending as usual
, Jack thought. But his heart started to race.
“Hurry!” called Annie.
“She better not be kidding,” said Jack.
He took off into the woods to find Annie.
Night was falling fast. Crickets chirped
loudly. It was hard to see through the shadows.
“Annie!” Jack shouted.
“Here!” she called.
Jack kept walking. “Here
where
?” he called back.
“Here
here
!”
Annie's voice came from above.
Jack looked up.
“Oh man,” he breathed.
Annie waved from the window of a tree house. It was in the tallest oak in the woods. A long rope ladder hung down from it.
The magic tree house was back
.
“Come on up!” Annie shouted.
Jack ran to the rope ladder. He started climbing.
He climbed and climbed and climbed.
