Day of the Dragon King
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Authors: Mary Pope Osborne
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Dear Readers,
I have long wanted to send Jack and Annie to China, but I couldn't figure out what period of history they should visit. Then one day, when I was reading in my local library, I stumbled across some amazing information. In the 1970s, archaeologists began excavating a great wonder in China: an ancient burial tomb with over 7,000 statues of soldiers and horses. The tomb was more than 2,000 years old and had been built for the first Chinese emperor.
After I learned this, I found other library books about that period of Chinese history, and I spent days reading and taking notes. From these notes, I fashioned
Day of the Dragon King.
Have I told you before that libraries are very important to me? They are
my
magic places â¦Â where I dream and wonder â¦Â and spin my stories.
Visit
your
library and I bet you'll find the same magic!
All my best,
Text copyright © 1998 by Mary Pope Osborne
Illustrations copyright © 1998 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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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Osborne, Mary Pope.
Day of the Dragon King / by Mary Pope Osborne; illustrated by Sal Murdocca.
    p. cm. â (Magic tree house; #14) “Stepping Stone book.”
SUMMARY:
The magic treehouse takes Jack and Annie back two thousand years to ancient China where they must find the original copy of an old legend before the Imperial Library is burned down by the evil Dragon King.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89471-8
[1. Time travelâFiction. 2. ChinaâHistoryâHan dynasty, 202 B.C.â220 A.D.âFiction. 3. MagicâFiction. 4. Tree housesâFiction.] I. Murdocca, Sal, ill. II. Title. III. Series: Osborne, Mary Pope. Magic tree house series; #14.
PZ7.O81167Day 1998 [Fic]âdc21 97-49199
Random House, Inc. New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland
A STEPPING STONE BOOK
is a trademark of Random House, Inc.
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Dear Readers
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Prologue
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2. The Cowherd
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5. The Scholar
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7. The Burning of the Books
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8. The Tomb
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9. The Silk Path
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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 that 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 point to a picture and wish to go there.
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 Magic Tree House #12,
Polar Bears Past Bedtime
, Jack and Annie solved the last of four ancient riddles and became Master Librarians. To help them in their future tasks, Morgan gave Jack and Annie secret library cards with the letters
M L
on them.
Jack and Annie's first four missions as Master Librarians are to save stories from ancient libraries. When their first adventure ended (Magic Tree House #13,
Vacation Under the Volcano
), Morgan asked them to return to the tree house in two weeks to go to China and save another story.
Now the two weeks are over â¦Â