Earthquake in the Early Morning

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Mary Pope Osborne

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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James Riley

Life is boring when you live in the real world, instead of starring in your own book series. Owen knows that better than anyone, what with the real world's homework and chores. But everything changes the day Owen sees the impossible happen -- his classmate Bethany climb out of a book in the library. It turns out Bethany's half-fictional and has been searching every book she can find for her missing father, a fictional character. Bethany can't let anyone else learn her secret, so Owen makes her a deal: All she has to do is take him into a book in Owen's favorite Kiel Gnomenfoot series, and he'll never say a word. Besides, visiting the book might help Bethany find her father. Or it might just destroy the Kiel Gnomenfoot series, reveal Bethany's secret to the entire world, and force Owen to live out Kiel Gnomenfoot's final (very final) adventure.

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Mary Pope Osborne

Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs. ###German-language description: Ein Baumhaus mitten im Wald, wie aufregend! Neugierig klettern Anne und Philipp die Strickleiter hinauf. Wem es wohl gehört? Doch plötzlich beginnt das Baumhaus, sich wild zu drehen. Immer schneller und schneller. Als die Kinder aus dem Fenster sehen, trauen sie ihren Augen kaum: Sie sind durch die Zeit gereist – und mitten im Tal der Dinosaurier gelandet!

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Rosemary Carter

As Roberto and his mother board the plane for their flight to the United States, his stow-away iguana terrorizes the passengers. Roberto rescues the iguana and sadly returns it to his grandfather. Roberto then remembers the gift from his grandfather, an iguana shaped flute, which has magical powers.