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Magic Tree House · Book 1

Dinosaurs Before Dark

by Mary Pope Osborne

Published
28 July 1992
Pages
80
ISBN-13
9781663630353
Type
novel

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About this book

"Dinosaurs Before Dark" is Magic Tree House book 1, published in 1992, and runs 80 pages. Like every Magic Tree House adventure, it sends siblings Jack and Annie through the tree house in the woods behind their Frog Creek, Pennsylvania home to a different moment in history, where they solve a problem and make it back before anyone notices they were gone.

Its place in Magic Tree House

Dinosaurs Before Dark is book 1 in the Magic Tree House series. It is followed by The Knight at Dawn. See the full Magic Tree House reading order.

Jack and Annie are ordinary siblings from Frog Creek, Pennsylvania who discover a mysterious tree house in the woods behind their house -- one packed with books that, when pointed at and wished upon, transport them anywhere and anywhen. Dinosaur-age forests, the deck of the Titanic, ancient Egypt, the Wild West, the surface of the moon: every book sends the pair on a short, brisk adventure where they solve a specific problem, learn something real about the time and place they've landed in, and make it home before…

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