Twister on Tuesday (Magic Tree House Series #23)

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In book 23 of the Magic Tree House, award-winning author Mary Pope Osborne's popular young adventure series, siblings Jack and Annie travel back to American pioneer times. Their task, assigned by mysterious Camelot librarian Morgan le Fay, is to find "something to learn." When their magic tree house alights on a Kansas prairie in the 1870s, Jack and Annie quickly find a one-room schoolhouse with classes in session. Something to learn! After an all-too-brief school day, the two return to the tree house with their mission completed. But wait: "In the distance, twisting black clouds had dropped out of the storm clouds. They swirled into a funnel shape." A twister! And the young teacher and students in the school don't realize there's a storm cellar under the floor. Jack and Annie must brave the howling winds to return and save their new friends.

Osborne's insatiable devotees will devour her latest adventure story, following Civil War on Sunday, Revolutionary War on Wednesday, and all the other titles in this exciting series. What better way to learn about history than to travel through time and space, experiencing it firsthand? (Ages 6 to 9) --Emilie Coulter


Book Description
In the third book of the American history cluster, Jack and Annie are whisked to a midwestern prairie in the 1870s. They visit a one-room schoolhouse and learn about the hard life of the pioneers. When they return to the magic tree house, Jack and Annie spot a twister on the horizon. Is there time to warn the teacher and the children back at the schoolhouse? Or should Jack and Annie just save themselves?


Card catalog description
When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.


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In the third book of the American history cluster, Jack and Annie are whisked to a midwestern prairie in the 1870s. They visit a one-room schoolhouse and learn about the hard life of the pioneers. When they return to the magic tree house, Jack and Annie spot a twister on the horizon. Is there time to warn the teacher and the children back at the schoolhouse? Or should Jack and Annie just save themselves?


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This, Osborne's 23rd "Magic Tree House Book" takes the reader back to America's pioneer days, as they were experienced on the prairie. The overall storytelling fabric of this series describes the adventures of an eight year old brother and his seven year old sister within and from a magic tree house that appeared "one day" in a woods near their home. A helpful prologue sets the stage for the series, as it tells us that the tree house belongs to Morgan le Fay, a magical librarian from Camelot. Books in Morgan's library hold the pictures to which the children point in order to begin each story. Background for this volume comes in three pages of "More Facts about Twisters." In this story Jack and Annie are led to a sod schoolhouse in pioneer days where, during school, they encounter a bully and a tornado. After the resolution of these complications, the teenage schoolteacher, Miss Neeley, sums up the story with, "We must try to hold onto the good memories, and forget the bad ones." 2001, Random House, $3.99. Ages 6 to 8. Reviewer: Carolyn DCL Michaels


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