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I thought I'd gradually create a list of Mary Pope Osborne's Magic Tree House series. All are welcome to join in on the fun!
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— //Dan Malosh @ MN1A Regional 2014/04/15 15:40//
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Eight-and-a-half-year-old Jack and his seven-year-old sister Annie find a magic tree house in the woods near their home. Climbing inside, they are whisked back to the prehistoric time of dinosaurs. But how will they return to their own time? For grades 2-4. 1992.
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Returning to the magic tree house, Annie and her older brother Jack travel back to the Middle Ages. They explore a castle, escape from a dungeon, and are helped by a mysterious knight. For grades 2-4. 1993.
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On this visit to the magic tree house, Jack and his younger sister, Annie, travel to the land of pyramids–ancient Egypt. They help a royal mummy continue her voyage to the next life. For grades 2-4. 1993.
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On a cold, rainy day in the magic tree house, Annie spies a book open to a picture of a sunny beach scene. Annie and her older brother, Jack, are transported to the days of deserted islands, secret maps, hidden treasure, and nasty pirates. For grades 2-4. 1994.
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When Jack and Annie are whisked away by the magic tree house to hundreds-of-years-ago Japan, they meet a ninja master in a hidden cave. They must practice being ninjas themselves to return home. For grades 2-4. 1995.
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Annie and Jack need to find the second special thing to free Morgan le Fay, owner of the magic tree house, from a spell. So they travel to a rain forest where they encounter army ants, people-eating fish, wild jaguars, and a helpful monkey. For grades 2-4. 1995.
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In search of the third special thing to help Morgan le Fay, Annie and Jack travel back in time in the magic tree house to the Ice Age. They meet Cro-Magnons, cave bears, and saber-toothed tigers and ride a woolly mammoth. For grades 2-4. 1996.
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Annie and Jack travel to the future to visit a moon base where they figure out the fourth and final special thing needed to free Morgan le Fay from the magician's spell. For grades 2-4. 1996.
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Annie and Jack are transported by the magic tree house to a beach by the ocean. A mini-sub takes them underwater to a coral reef where they meet a giant octopus, a shark, and friendly dolphins while looking for the answer to an ancient riddle. For grades 2-4. 1997.
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When Jack and Annie explore the Wild West to solve another riddle, cowboy Slim Cooley mistakes them for horse thieves. They ride horses and face mustang rustlers and a ghost before leaving. For grades 2-4. 1997.
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On the way back from buying lunch, Annie and Jack come to the magic tree house, which takes them to Africa. There, meeting wonderful wild animals and a very hungry warrior, they even solve a riddle. For grades 2-4. 1998.
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The magic tree house whisks Annie and Jack off to the frozen Arctic. They meet polar bears, cracking ice, and a seal hunter with his dogsled and huskies. For grades 2-4. 1998.
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Jack and Annie time travel back to Roman Empire days. Arriving in Pompeii, they need to find a special scroll before Mt. Vesuvius erupts and buries everything in fiery ash. For grades 2-4. 1998.
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The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back two thousand years to ancient China. Their task is to find the earliest written form of an ancient legend - a bound book made of bamboo strips - before the evil Dragon King burns down the Imperial Library. For grades 2-4. 1998.
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Jack and Annie travel back more than a thousand years to ancient Ireland, where their search for a lost book takes them to a monastery. They meet Brother Patrick and also face a sea monster and a Viking raid. For grades 2-4. 1998.
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When Jack and Annie travel back in time to ancient Greece to find a lost story, they arrive during the Olympics. They discover that girls did not have many rights in those days. For grades 2-4. 1998.
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The magic tree house transports Annie and Jack to the deck of the Titanic, the supposedly unsinkable ship. They arrive right before the ship hits an iceberg. For grades 2-4. 1999.
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With the help of the magic tree house, Jack and Annie travel to the Great Plains when the Lakota Indians lived there. They meet Black Hawk, who takes them on a buffalo hunt that turns into a stampede. For grades 2-4. 1999.
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Having used their magic tree house to travel to India, Jack and Annie have adventures involving a tiger and other endangered animals. For grades 2-4. 1999.
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When the magic tree house lands Jack and Annie in Australia, they meet dingoes (wild dogs), a koala, and a kangaroo and her joey, and experience the dangers of a wildfire. For grades 2-4. 2000.
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Jack and Annie are transported by their magic tree house to the time of the Civil War, where they meet Clara Barton, the famous nurse. For grades 2-4. 2000.
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Using their magic tree house, Jack and Annie travel back to the time of the American Revolution and help General George Washington during his famous crossing of the Delaware River. For grades 2-4. 2000.
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When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie at the time of the earliest railroad trains, they discover the hardships of the pioneers. And they experience the terror of a tornado. For grades 2-4. 2001.
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When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #23: Twister on Tuesday, they had lots of questions. How do tornadoes form? What kinds of tools can help predict bad storms? Where did the biggest snowfall on record happen? How fast are hurricane winds? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts. For grades 2-4. 2003.
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The magic tree house carries Jack and Annie back to 1906 San Francisco, where they experience one of the biggest earthquakes ever in the United States. For grades 2-4. 2001.
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When the magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to London in 1600, they meet William Shakespeare. He needs two boys to be actors in his play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Jack is chosen, but has a bad case of stage fright. For grades 2-4. 2002.
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The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to a misty rain forest in Central Africa. They meet a young gorilla and spend time with the entire family, finding ways to communicate. For grades 2-4. 2002.
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The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving celebration with the Wampanoag Indians. Preparing for the feast is harder than Annie and Jack realize and makes them even more thankful for living in modern times. For grades 2-4. 2002.
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When Jack and Annie find a secret rhyme inside the book A Visit to Old Hawaii they are off on another adventure. They experience a tsunami, discover a special kind of ship, and meet a brother and sister who teach them surfing. For grades 2-4. 2003.
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On Christmas Eve, the magic tree house transports Jack and his sister, Annie, to King Arthur's castle in Camelot. They find the kingdom under a dark spell and undertake a quest to the Otherworld to restore joy to Camelot. For grades 2-4. 2001.
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After climbing into their magic tree house, Jack and Annie are invited by master magician Merlin to King Arthur's realm where invisible beings, giant ravens, and haunted spells have put a duke's castle in an uproar on Halloween night. For grades 2-4. 2003.
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The magician Merlin sends Jack and Annie back into time where they are reunited with boy sorcerer Teddy. The children are transformed into selkies, or seal people, then dive into a cave and discover an old sword. For grades 2-4. 2004.
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Jack and Annie travel with Teddy and Kathleen to the snowy Land-Behind-the-Clouds to retrieve Merlin's Staff of Strength. But the Ice Wizard has already captured Merlin and Morgan and possesses the staff. The Wizard will only exchange them for his missing eye. For grades 2-4. 2004.
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While on a mission to prove to Merlin that they can use magic wisely, Jack and Annie travel to seventeenth-century Venice, Italy, to save the city from disaster. For grades 2-4. 2005.
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Guided by a magic rhyme, Jack and Annie travel back to the Golden Age of Baghdad. Their mission is to help the caliph (ruler) spread wisdom to the world. But first they must find out about riding a ship of the desert to reach the city. For grades 2-4. 2005.
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Merlin sends Jack and Annie to the 1889 World's Fair in Paris, France. Their mission is to find four new magicians in the crowds at the Eiffel Tower and protect them from an evil sorcerer. For grades 2-4. 2006.
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Merlin the magician sends Jack and Annie to New York during the Great Depression in 1938 when a blizzard is burying the city. Their mission is to find an ancient fantasy creature–the last unicorn. For grades 2-4. 2006.
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Merlin the magician is feeling old and full of sorrows, so siblings Annie and Jack time travel to ancient, feudal Japan to find one of the four secrets of happiness. In the land of the samurai, Annie and Jack find Basho, the haiku poet. For grades 2-4. 2007.
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Jack and Annie travel back in time five hundred years to Florence, Italy. They spend a day helping Leonardo da Vinci, hoping to learn another of the four secrets of happiness from the artist. For grades 2-4. 2007.
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Jack and his sister Annie travel back in time to the 1870s and meet sailors and scientists aboard the HMS Challenger–the first ship dedicated to scientific exploration. While learning about mysterious ocean creatures, Jack and Annie discover another of the four secrets of happiness. For grades 2-4. 2008.
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The Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie away to the super-cold continent of Antarctica, the home of penguins, to search for the fourth secret of happiness for Merlin. For grades 2-4. 2008.
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When Jack and Annie magically arrive in 1762 Vienna, Austria, their mission is to help a brilliant artist bring joy to the world. But six-year-old Wolfie keeps interfering. For grades 2-4. 2009.
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Jack and Annie travel back in time to 1915 New Orleans to help a teenaged Louis Armstrong fulfill his destiny and become “the King of Jazz.” For grades 2-4. 2009.
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Jack and Annie travel back in time to Ireland in 1862. Merlin's new mission for them is to encourage young Augusta Gregory to share her love of Irish legends and folktales with the world. For grades 2-4. 2010.
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Jack and Annie travel back to Victorian London after Merlin asks them to use their magic to inspire Charles Dickens to write //A Christmas Carol// (DB 70685). For grades 2-4. 2010.
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The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to India during the Mogul Empire in the 1600s to search for an emerald rose needed to break a magic spell. They encounter a rogue elephant, a king cobra, and the ruler who built the Taj Mahal. For grades 2-4. 2011.
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The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to a monastery in the Swiss Alps. With the help of St. Bernard dogs and magic, Jack and Annie search for the second of four objects needed to break the spell on the wizard Merlin's beloved penguin Penny. For grades 2-4. 2011.
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Like the Saint Bernards in //Dogs in the Dead of Night// (DB 74196), the canines featured here are trained to save lives. Discusses search-and-rescue dogs, including some that helped find 9/11 survivors; service dogs; and famous hero dogs throughout history. For grades 2-4. 2011.
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Annie and Jack set off in their next adventure to find the third item needed to help Teddy fix his wayward spell. The tree house whisks them back in time - first to Washington, D.C., then to Indiana - as they search for Abe Lincoln. For grades 2-4. 2011.
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In this companion to //Abe Lincoln at Last!// (DB 76124), Annie and Jack present biographical information on President Lincoln. They discuss what it was like to live in a log cabin and describe Abe's growing up poor, first in Kentucky and later in Indiana. For grades 2-4. 2011.
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Annie and Jack return from Washington, D.C., and head off to China in search of the fourth item needed to fix the spell. This time they are instructed to find a healthy food, but when an earthquake strikes they must also rescue some pandas. For grades 2-4. 2012.
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In this companion to //A Perfect Time for Pandas// (DB 77354), Annie and Jack present information about the habitats and characteristics of pandas. They discuss the animal's status as an endangered species and life on reserves. For grades 2-4. 2012.
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Jack and Annie go back to Ancient Macedonia and an adventure with Alexander the Great when he was a child and his famous stallion: Bucephalus. 2013.
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Jack and Annie meet magician Harry Houdini. 2013.
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Jack and Annie meet Florence Nightingale in Egypt. 2014.
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Jack and Annie travel to a soccer field in Mexico. 2014.
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2015.
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2016.
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2016.
NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT - Tentative print publication date: 1/5/2014