Free Moonlight on the Magic Flute: A Merlin Mission by Mary Pope Osborne

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I ’ve always wanted Jack and Annie to go to the country of Austria, and now, finally, they do in
Moonlight on the Magic Flute
. When I was a small child, my family lived in Austria for three years. Our home was in Salzburg, a beautiful old town situated on the banks of a river and surrounded by mountains. Best of all, a huge castle sits on a hilltop in Salzburg overlooking the town. I could see the castle from the windows of our house!
    Living in Austria was like living in a fairy tale. I’m certain it gave me my love of fairy tales and folklore, and it also gave me the feeling from a very early age that everyday life has a touch of magic to it. So I hope that now you, too, will have a great trip to this country that meant so much to me a long time ago.

Text copyright © 2009 by Mary Pope Osborne
Illustrations copyright © 2009 by Sal Murdocca
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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Osborne, Mary Pope.
Moonlight on the magic flute / by Mary Pope Osborne; illustrated by Sal Murdocca. — 1st ed.
  p. cm. — (Magic tree house; #41)
“A Merlin mission.”
“A Stepping Stone book.”
Summary: Jack and Annie travel to Vienna, Austria, in 1762, where they meet the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his sister and help save the budding genius’s life.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89463-3
[1. Time travel—Fiction. 2. Magic—Fiction. 3. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,
1756–1791—Fiction. 4. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 5. Vienna (Austria)—History—
18th century—Fiction. 6. Austria—History—1740–1789—Fiction.]
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