Ghost Town at Sundown [Lingua Inglese]

Osborne, Mary Pope

ISBN 10: 0679983392 ISBN 13: 9780679983392

Casa editrice: Random House Childrens Books, 1997

Riassunto

Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to the Wild West, where they experience excitement and danger and try to solve a riddle

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L'autore:

* 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!

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

The saga and success of The Magic Tree House continues! The tenth adventure, Ghost Town at Sundown, is filled with the excitement, action, and fun facts always found in Magic Tree House books.
Morgan le Fay has promised to make Jack and Annie masters of the tree house if they can solve four riddles. In Ghost Town at Sundown, the Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie back to a ghost town in the Wild West of the 1880s. There, they meet a mustang herder named Slim as they search for the answer to the second riddle.

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• Editore: Random House Childrens Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679983392
• ISBN 13: 9780679983392
• Rilegatura: Rilegatura all'americana
• Numero di pagine: 73
• Disegnatore: Murdocca Sal