MAGIC TREE HOUSE

Books 5 - 8: Mystery of the Magic Spell

by Mary Pope Osborne, illustrated by Sal Murdocca

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Box set of 4 new softcover chapter books - the second 4 books in the Magic Tree House series. Books measure 20 x 13cm, reading age 7+ years.

Jack and his little sister Annie are just two regular kids from Frog Creek, Pennsylvania. Then they discover a mysterious tree house packed with all sorts of books...and their lives are never the same!

These 4 books form the Mystery of the Magic Spell story arc.

5. Night of the Ninjas - In ancient Japan, Jack and Annie encounter ninjas and samurai.

6. Afternoon on the Amazon - Jack and Annie search the Amazon rainforest for Morgan le Fay.

7. Sunset of the Sabertooth - In the last Ice Age, Jack and Annie encounter Cro-Magnons, wooly mammoths, and a saber-toothed cat while looking for the third object to help Morgan le Fay.

8. Midnight on the Moon - Forty years into their future (2036), Jack and Annie travel to the moon to look for the fourth object needed to help Morgan le Fay. Fourth part in the Mystery of the Magic Spell story arc. In the end Jack and Annie learn that their mouse companion Peanut was a transformed Morgan Le Fay who was trapped under a spell. Jack and Annie break the spell and return her to human form before returning home.

About the author and illustrator

Mary Pope Osborne (born May 20, 1949) grew up in the military, and by the time she was fifteen had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida and four different army posts in Virginia and North Carolina. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the early 1970's, Mary traveled all over Europe, and spent the first six weeks of her trip living in a cave on the island of Crete. She then joined up with a group of European young people and traveled in rickety vans through sixteen Asian countries, including Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal. She was a bartender, an acting teacher, a waitress, a travel agent, a window dresser, and a medical assistant - all before becoming an author!

Now she is the author of many highly acclaimed novels, picture books, story collections and non-fiction books. She currently works with her sister, Natalie Pope Boyce, on the nonfiction companion titles to the Magic Tree House books. She lives in Goshen, Connecticut, with her husband, Will, and their two Norfolk terriers, Joey and Mr. Bezo. Mary's award-winning and bestselling Magic Tree House series has been translated into over 20 languages and sold over 53 million copies.

Sal Murdocca has illustrated over 200 children’s trade and text books. He is also a librettist for children’s opera, a video artist, an avid runner, hiker, and bicyclist, and a teacher of children’s illustration at the Parsons School of Design. Sal lives and works in New York, New York with his wife, Nancy.

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Magic Treehouse Books 5 - 8: Mystery of the Magic Spell by Mary Pope Osborne