Free Midnight on the Moon by Mary Pope Osborne

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Text copyright © 1996 by Mary Pope Osborne.
Illustrations copyright © 1996 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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www.randomhouse.com/magictreehouse
    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Osborne, Mary Pope. Midnight on the moon / by Mary Pope Osborne;
illustrated by Sal Murdocca.
p. cm. — (Magic tree house; #8) “A first stepping stone book.”
SUMMARY: The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to a moon base in the future where they continue to search for the fourth thing they need to free their friend Morgan from the magician’s spell.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89425-1
[1. Moon—Fiction. 2. Time travel—Fiction. 3. Magic—Fiction. 4. Science fiction.]
I. Murdocca, Sal, ill. II. Title. III. Series: Osborne, Mary Pope. Magic tree house
series; #8. PZ7.O81167Mi 1996 [Fic]—dc20 96-17298
    Random House, Inc. New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland
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For Jacob and Elena Levi

and Aram and Molly Hanessian



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.
    The tree house was filled with books and it was
magic
. It could go any place that was in a book. All Jack and Annie had to do was to point to a picture and wish to go there.
    They visited dinosaurs, knights, an Egyptian queen, pirates, ninjas, and the Amazon rain forest.
    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 for her library.
    One day, Jack and Annie found a note that said Morgan was under a