Blizzard of the Blue Moon
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Authors: Mary Pope Osborne
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F
inally Jack and Annie go to New York City, the place I called home for over twenty-five years. New York City is a larger-than-life place, filled with skyscrapers, taxis, subways, parks, museums, theaters, and busy, bustling streets. The city has all kinds of weather, too, from heat waves to raging snowstorms. I remember one particularly dramatic blizzard in 1996. The city came to a complete standstill as the wind howled and it snowed and snowed and snowed. When the storm finally ended, pale sunlight shone on all the white streets and sidewalks—and everyone went out to play. Kids made giant snowmen and dogs tunneled through the snowdrifts.
No matter what disasters it suffers, New York City always comes back. I hope you have a great adventure there with Jack and Annie.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 2006 by Mary Pope Osborne
Illustrations copyright © 2006 by Sal Murdocca
Window cling illustration copyright © 2006 by Sal Murdocca
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Osborne, Mary Pope.
Blizzard of the blue moon / by Mary Pope Osborne; illustrated by Sal Murdocca.
p. cm. — (Magic tree house; #36)
“A Merlin mission.”
“A Stepping Stone book.”
Summary: The magic tree house carries Jack and Annie to New York City in 1938 on a mission to rescue the last unicorn.
[1. Time travel—Fiction. 2. Magic—Fiction. 3. Unicorns—Fiction. 4. Depressions—
1929—Fiction. 5. Tree houses—Fiction. 6. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 7. New York
(N.Y)—History—1898-1951—Fiction.] I. Murdocca, Sal, ill. II. Title. III. Osborne, Mary
Pope. Magic tree house series; #36.
PZ7.O81167Bli 2006 [Fic]—dc22 2006001838
eISBN: 978-0-375-89458-9
v3.0
To Elwood Smith, who long ago
in New York City inspired me
to write for children
He stays, the Unicorn, In captivity….
Yet look again—
His horn is free,
Rising above
Chain, fence, and tree.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
“The Unicorn in Captivity”
O
ne summer day, a mysterious tree house appeared in the woods. A brother and sister named Jack and Annie soon learned that the tree house was magic—it could take them to any time and any place in history. They also learned that the tree house belonged to Morgan le Fay, a magical librarian from the legendary realm of Camelot.
After Jack and Annie traveled on many adventures for Morgan, Merlin the magician began sending them on “Merlin Missions” in the tree house. With help from two young sorcerers named Teddy and Kathleen, Jack and Annie visited four mythical places and found valuable objects to help save Camelot.
For their next four Merlin Missions, Jack and Annie were told they must travel to
real
times and
real
places in history and prove to Merlin that they could use magic wisely. First they
went on a mission to the city of Venice. Next they journeyed to the ancient city of Baghdad. On their most recent trip they visited the city of Paris in 1889. Now they are waiting to hear from Merlin again….