Afternoon on the Amazon: 06 (Magic Tree House)

Osborne, Mary Pope

ISBN 10: 0780750861 ISBN 13: 9780780750869

Publisher: Perfection Learning, 1995

Synopsis

Afternoon on the Amazon Eight-year-old Jack, his seven-year-old sister, Annie, and Peanut the mouse ride in a tree house to the Amazon rain forests, where they encounter giant ants, flesh-eating piranhas, hungry crocodiles, and wild jaguars.

About this title

Product Description:

Jack and Annie travel back in time to a South American rain forest in search
of the elusive magician Morgan le Fay. Will they find a new clue to her
whereabouts before they are trampled by stampeding killer ants?

About the Author:

* Mary Pope Osborne grew up in the military, and by the time she was fifteen had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida and four different army posts in Virginia and North Carolina.

* After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the early 1970's, Mary traveled all over Europe, and spent the first six weeks of her trip living in a cave on the island of Crete. She then joined up with a group of European young people and traveled in rickety vans through sixteen Asian countries, including Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal.

* She was a bartender, an acting teacher, a waitress, a travel agent, a window dresser, and a medical assistant -- all before becoming an author! Now she is the author of many highly acclaimed picture books, early chapter books, middle-grade biographies, and young adult novels.

* In February 1993, Mary was elected the 27th president of the Author's Guild, the oldest, most established organization for writers in the United States.

* Mary her husband Will spilt their time between an apartment in Greenwich Village, New York and a cabin in Pennsylvania. They own a terrier named Bailey, who sleeps on the top of Mary's desk every day while she writes!

About this edition

• Publisher: Perfection Learning
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0780750861
• ISBN 13: 9780780750869
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 67
• Illustrator: Murdocca Salvatore