Twister on Tuesday - Mary Pope Osborne [9]
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.
Annie picked up the note lying on the floor. She held it up to the window and read aloud:
Dear Jack and Annie,
Camelot is in trouble. To save the kingdom, please find these four special kinds of writing for my library:
Something to follow
Something to send
Something to learn
Something to lend
Thank you,
Morgan
Jack took a deep breath.
“Okay,” he said. “We have our first special writing: a list from the Civil War.”
“We have the second,” said Annie, “a letter from the Revolutionary War.”
“We have the third,” said Jack, “a poem from a pioneer schoolhouse.”
“Now we just need one more,” said Annie.
“I wonder why we have to find these special writings for Morgan’s library,” said Jack. “How are they going to save Camelot?”
“I don’t know,” said Annie. “But let’s get going so we can solve the mystery. Where’s our research book?”
They looked around the tree house.
Their Pennsylvania book, the book that always brought them home, was lying in the corner. Beside it was another book. Annie picked it up.
“This is it,” she said softly. She showed the book’s cover to Jack. It said:
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 1906
“California?” said Jack. “I’ve always wanted to go to California.”
“Me too,” said Annie. She laughed. “I guess I told Miss Neely the truth after all.”
“Yeah,” said Jack, smiling.
The magic tree house had taken them to a pioneer school in their last adventure. There, Annie had told the teacher, Miss Neely, that they were on their way to California.
Annie pointed at the cover of the California book.
“We really wish we could go there,” she said.
The wind started to blow.
The tree house started to spin.
It spun faster and faster.
Then everything was still.
Absolutely still.
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