Afternoon on the Amazon
Here's what kids have to say to
Mary Pope Osborne, author of
the Magic Tree House series:
WOW! You have an imagination like no other.
âAdam W.
I love your books. If you stop writing books, it will be like losing a best friend.
âBen M.
I think you are the real Morgan le Fay. There is always magic in your books.
âErica Y.
One day I was really bored and I didn't want to read â¦Â I looked in your book. I read a sentence, and it was interesting. So I read some more, until the book was done. It was so good I read more and more. Then I had read all of your books, and now I hope you write lots more.
âDanai K.
I always read [your books] over and over â¦Â 1 time, 2 times, 3 times, 4 times â¦Â
âYuan C.
You are my best author in the world. I love your books. I read all the time. I read everywhere. My mom is like freaking out.
âEllen C.
I hope you make these books for all yours and mine's life.
âRiki H.
Teachers and librarians love
Magic Tree House
®
books, too!
Thank you for opening faraway places and times to my class through your books. They have given me the chance to bring in additional books, materials, and videos to share with the class.
âJ. Cameron
It excites me to see how involved [my fourth-grade reading class] is in your books â¦Â I would do anything to get my students more involved, and this has done it.
âC. Rutz
I discovered your books last year â¦Â WOW! Our students have gone crazy over them. I can't order enough copies! â¦Â Thanks for contributing so much to children's literature!
âC. Kendziora
I first came across your Magic Tree House series when my son brought one home â¦Â I have since introduced this great series to my class. They have absolutely fallen in love with these books! â¦Â My students are now asking me for more independent reading time to read them. Your stories have inspired even my most struggling readers.
âM. Payne
I love how I can go beyond the [Magic Tree House] books and use them as springboards for other learning.
âR. Gale
We have enjoyed your books all year long. We check your Web site to find new information. We pull our map down to find the areas where the adventures take place. My class always chimes in at key parts of the story. It feels good to hear my students ask for a book and cheer when a new book comes out.
âJ. Korinek
Our students have “Magic Tree House fever.” I can't keep your books on the library shelf.
âJ. Rafferty
Your books truly invite children into the pleasure of reading. Thanks for such terrific work.
âS. Smith
The children in the fourth grade even hide the [Magic Tree House] books in the library so that they will be able to find them when they are ready to check them out.
âK. Mortensen
My Magic Tree House books are never on the bookshelf because they are always being read by my students. Thank you for creating such a wonderful series.
âK. Mahoney
Text copyright © 1995 by Mary Pope Osborne.
Illustrations copyright © 1995 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.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Osborne, Mary Pope. Afternoon on the Amazon / by Mary Pope Osborne;
illustrated by Sal Murdocca.
p. cm. â (The Magic tree house series; #6) “A First stepping stone book.”
SUMMARY:
Eight-year-old Jack, his seven-year-old sister, Annie, and Peanut the mouse ride in a tree house to the Amazon rain forest, where they encounter flesh-eating piranhas, hungry crocodiles, and wild jaguars.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89423-7
[1. Rain forestsâFiction. 2. Rain forest animalsâFiction. 3. Adventure and adventurersâFiction. 4. Tree housesâFiction. 5. Amazon River ValleyâFiction.]
I. Murdocca, Sal, ill. II. Title. III. Series: Osborne, Mary Pope. Magic tree house series; #6.
PZ7.O81167Af 1995
[Fic]âdc20 95-3237
Random House, Inc. New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland
v3.0
For Piers Pope Boyce
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. They found it was filled with books.
Jack and Annie soon discovered that the tree house was magic. It could take them to the places in the books. All they had to do was to point to a picture and wish to go there.
Jack and Annie visited the times of
dinosaurs, knights, pyramids, pirates, and ninjas. Along the way, they discovered that the tree house belongs to Morgan le Fay. Morgan is a magical librarian from the time of King Arthur. She travels through time and space, gathering books.
In their last adventure,
Night of the Ninjas,
Jack and Annie learned that Morgan was under a spell. To free her, Jack and Annie have to find four special things.
In old Japan, they found the first thing: a moonstone.
Now Jack and Annie are about to set out in search of the second thing â¦Â in
Afternoon on the Amazon
.
“Hurry, Jack!” shouted Annie.
Annie ran into the Frog Creek woods.
Jack followed her.
“It's still here!” Annie called.
Jack caught up with Annie. She stood beside a tall oak tree.
Jack looked up. The magic tree house was shining in the afternoon sunlight.
“We're coming, Peanut!” Annie called.
She grabbed the rope ladder and started up.
Jack followed. They climbed and climbed. Finally they climbed into the tree house.
“Peanut?” said Annie.
Jack took off his backpack. He looked around.
Sunlight slanted across a stack of booksâbooks about ninjas, pirates, mummies, knights, and dinosaurs.
The letter M shimmered on the wooden floor. M for Morgan le Fay.
“I don't think Peanut's here,” said Jack.
“I wonder where she is,” said Annie.
“How do you know Peanut's a
she?
” asked Jack.
“I just know it,” said Annie.
“Oh, brother,” said Jack.
Squeak
!
Annie laughed. “Look, Jack!”
A small pink sock was moving across the
floor. Yesterday Annie had turned her sock into a bed for Peanut.
