Earthquake in the Early Morning - Mary Pope Osborne [1]
Illustrations copyright © 2001 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.
Earthquake in the early morning / Mary Pope Osborne;
illustrated by Sal Murdocca.
p. cm. — (Magic tree house; 24) “A stepping stone book.”
SUMMARY: The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to San Francisco in 1906, in time for them to experience one of the biggest earthquakes the United States had ever known.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89481-7
1. Earthquakes—California—San Francisco—Juvenile fiction.
[1. Earthquakes—California—San Francisco—Fiction. 2. San Francisco (Calif.) —Fiction. 3. Time travel—Fiction. 4. Magic—Fiction. 5. Tree houses—Fiction.]
I. Murdocca, Sal, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.O81167 Ear 2001 [Fic]—dc21 00-045701
Random House, Inc. New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland
RANDOM HOUSE and colophon are registered trademarks and A STEPPING STONE BOOK and colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc. MAGIC TREE HOUSE is a registered trademark of Mary Pope Osborne; used under license.
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Cover
Dear Readers
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Prologue
1. Tweet-tweet
2. Thunder Under the Ground
3. The Great Shake
4. What’s the Story?
5. Stop! Stop!
6. Something to Lend
7. Dynamite!
8. Good Luck, San Francisco!
9. The Wonderful Room
10. The Mystery of Morgan’s Library
More Facts
Special Preview of Magic Tree House #25: Stage Fright on a Summer Night
For Chi Hyon,
Andrew and Peter’s mother
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 point to a picture and wish to go there.
Along the way, Jack and Annie discovered that the tree house belongs to Morgan le Fay. Morgan is a magical librarian from Camelot, the long-ago kingdom of King Arthur. She travels through time and space, gathering books.
In Magic Tree House Books #5–8, Jack and Annie helped free Morgan from a spell. In Books #9–12, they solved four ancient riddles and became Master Librarians.
In Magic Tree House Books #13–16, Jack and Annie had to save four ancient stories from being lost forever.
In Magic Tree House Books #17–20, Jack and Annie freed a mysterious little dog from a magic spell.
In Magic Tree House Books #21–24, Jack and Annie have a new challenge. They must find four special kinds of writing for Morgan’s library to help save Camelot. They are about to set off to find the third of these … .
Jack sat up in bed. He stared out his window.
The sky was dark gray. The sun would be rising soon.
“It’s almost time,” he whispered to himself.
The day before, in the magic tree house, Morgan’s note had said, “Come back tomorrow, in the early morning.”
Jack jumped out of bed. He put on his jeans and T-shirt. Then he grabbed his backpack and crept out into the hall.
Jack peeked into Annie’s room. She wasn’t there. He slipped downstairs and out the front door.
Annie was sitting on the porch steps. Jack sat down beside her.
“What are you doing?” he asked.
“I was waiting for the birds to start singing,” said Annie. “Then I was going to wake you up.”
Jack and Annie watched the sky go from dark gray to light gray. Then the birds began their song.
“Tweet-tweet,” said Annie.
Without another word, Jack and Annie left their porch. They headed up their street to the Frog Creek woods.
It was cool beneath the trees. Jack and Annie hurried through the woods to the rope ladder. It hung from the tallest oak. At the top of the oak was the magic tree house.
They climbed up into the tree house. It was barely light inside.