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Overview

Jack and Annie are on their second mission to find—and inspire—artists to bring happiness to millions. After traveling to New Orleans, Jack and Annie come head to head with some real ghosts, as well as discover the world of jazz when they meet a young Louis Armstrong!

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Mary Pope Osborne continued her writing winning streak with this diverting (and educational) Magic Tree House excursion to New Orleans. On their illuminating good will mission, Jack and Annie encounter some major Big Easy presences, including some real ghosts and a young trumpet player named Louis Armstrong! Now in paperback; for ages nine thru 12.

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The wind picks up, and with a whirl and twirl the magic tree house settles in New Orleans, Louisiana. Jack and Annie's adventure takes them back to the year 1915 on All Saints' Day. They need to locate young Louis Armstrong or Dipper as he is known to his friends. Jack and Annie's mission is to help Dipper "bring his gifts to the world." Dipper's gift is music. For those who are not familiar with Louis Armstrong, he is known as the "King of Jazz." When Jack and Annie find Dipper, he is going from one job to the next to help his family. He is so busy that his friends, Little Mack, Happy, and Big Nose Sidney, have a difficult time convincing him to perform in the All Saints' Day parade, at Jackson Square, or on the riverboats. Jack and Annie take some drastic measures to guide Armstrong onto his musical path, perhaps even with a little help with some ghosts. Fans of Jack and Annie will probably enjoy this adventure from the "Magic Tree House: A Merlin Mission" series. There is a research guide on ghosts that is a companion to this story. Reviewer: Carrie Hane Hung

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780375856488
  • Publisher: Random House Children's Books
  • Publication date: 7/28/2009
  • Pages: 128
  • Sales rank: 124,106
  • Age range: 7 - 11 Years
  • Lexile: 490L (what's this?)
  • Series: Magic Tree House Series, #42
  • Product dimensions: 5.82 (w) x 11.04 (h) x 0.66 (d)

Meet the Author

Mary Pope Osborne
Mary Pope Osborne
Mary Pope Osborne has channeled a lifelong love of exploration and travel into one of the most popular children’s book series of the past two decades. With her fantastic Magic Tree House series, Mary Pope Osborne keeps the good times rolling for kids all over the world.

Biography

Ever since 1992, Mary Pope Osborne has been thrilling kids everywhere with her delightfully exciting Magic Tree House series. The globetrotting escapades of time travelers Jack and Annie are brimming with adventure and magic (not to mention some subtly placed lessons on history and geography). With a life like Osborne's, it's only natural that she would be capable of bringing such wondrous stories to life.

Osborne was brought up in a military family, and her parents' work led to a lifestyle marked by constant change. "By the time I was 15," she says on randomhouse.com, "I had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida, and four different army posts in Virginia and North Carolina." While many kids would probably feel disoriented by such constant change, Osborne wouldn't have had it any other way. "Moving was never traumatic for me, but staying in one place was. When my dad finally retired to a small town in North Carolina, I nearly went crazy with boredom. I craved the adventure and changing scenery of our military life."

And adventure is exactly what Osborne got! After college, she embarked on a series of daring treks across the globe that would surely give Jack and Annie a run for their money. "For a while I camped in a cave on the island of Crete," she said. "Then I joined up with a small band of European young people heading to 'The East.' We traveled through 11 Asian countries and nearly lost our lives, first in an earthquake in northern Afghanistan and then in a riot in Kabul."

Following an illness she contracted in Katmandu, Osborne returned home to the U.S. trying her hand at a vast variety of jobs: window dresser, medical assistant, Russian travel consultant, waitress, bartender, and an assistant editor at a children's magazine. Although Osborne had unconsciously moved closer toward her ultimate career, she says that her first attempts at writing seemed to come without warning. "One day, out of the blue, I began writing a story about an 11-year-old girl in the South," she recalls. "The girl was a lot like me, and many of the incidents in the story were similar to happenings in my childhood...it became a young adult novel called Run, Run Fast as You Can. Finally, I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up."

She sure did! Since then, Osborne has penned a slew of stories, including picture books, chapter books, middle-grade biographies, and young adult novels; but she is indisputably best known for her wonderful Magic Tree House books, a happy hodge-podge of history and mystery with a time travel theme kids find irresistible. No doubt inspired by Osborne's own highly adventurous life, these exiting expeditions have attracted droves of children and pleased educators by combining compulsively readable storytelling with useful facts about geography and history.

As was written of the series in Children's Literature, "Mary Pope Osborne provides nicely paced excitement for young readers, and there's just enough information mixed in so that children will take away some historical fact along with a sense of accomplishment at having completed a chapter book." As much as Osborne has certainly pleased her readers (not to mention their parents and teachers), perhaps no one is quite as pleased as she. "I'm one of those very lucky people who absolutely loves what they do for a living," she explained. "There is no career better suited to my eccentricities, strengths, and passions than that of a children's book author."

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A few fascinating outtakes from our interview with Osborne:

"One of the most defining experiences of my life was traveling overland in an old van through the Middle East and Asia in the early 1970's. One day, when a small group of us were camped in a remote part of northern Afghanistan, we saw a woman riding horseback over the sloping plain. Her long brown hair floated on the wind and she wore a bright gypsy-style dress. When she got closer, I realized she was one of my roommates from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill! Though I didn't even know she'd left the U.S.—and she didn't know I was in Afghanistan, we weren't that surprised to come upon each other. That says a lot about the times we were living in then."

"After 26 years of living in New York City, my husband Will and I now spend most of our time in Northwestern Connecticut, living in a house that overlooks a lake. We kayak and hike with our two Norfolk terriers, Joey and Mr. Bezo. Will's learning Italian, and I've been working with a tutor for two years trying to understand Dante's Divine Comedy. One of my biggest hobbies is reading philosophy and theology. We spend lots of time, of course, on our work. After writing three shows for the Morehead Planetarium in North Carolina, Will's writing a musical based on the Magic Tree House series. I'm writing book # 38 in the series. I also spend a lot of time with my sister Natalie Pope Boyce who works on the Magic Tree House Research Guides. Natalie and our nephews and some of our best friends live nearby in the Berkshires Hills of Massachusetts, so we're up there a lot, too. My only complaint is there is not enough time to do all I want to do. For instance, I'd love to take drawing classes and I'd love to paint the lake we're living on. And I'd love to bird watch and become a better cook and learn about classical music. Maybe sometime in the future...."

    1. Hometown:
      Goshen, Connecticut
    1. Date of Birth:
      May 20, 1949
    2. Place of Birth:
      Fort Sill, Oklahoma
    1. Education:
      B.A., University of North Carolina
    2. Website:
      http://www.marypopeosborne.com
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  • Posted November 30, 2011

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    Mystery Solved.

    Have fun and entertainment with Annie and Jack on this wonderful adventure going back in time to the early 1900s in New Orleans, LA. With a fascinating storyline you are sure to be caught up in this tale of suspense and mystery. Do you believe in ghosts? Well, this tale may make you a believer. Come along with Jack and Annie and find out if there are ghosts and find out about Dipper. Dipper has something wonderful to offer the world. Do you know what that is? And will Dipper share this special ¿secret¿ with the world? If you want to know, just read "A Good Night for Ghosts" and find the answers to these and other questions. **Great leisure time reading. You will probably enjoy the other novels with these same protagonists.

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  • Posted April 30, 2009

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 14, 2012

    I loved this book

    Because it was about ghost. And i love ghosts and i think ghosts are super duper intresting. And in this book there are 10 ghost but it looks like there are 1000 ghosts. I'm always afraid of ghosts but i always believe in ghosts. But i always know that theirs no such thing as ghosts at all even in halloween night.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 30, 2011

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    Even though it wasn't that great I felt like I was with them on their adventure

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  • Posted October 9, 2011

    Nothing like it!

    One of the best books I've ever read. It was scary, funny, educational and entertaining!

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  • Posted September 16, 2011

    I <3 <3 this book

    I totaly feel bad for the people who got a sample of magic treehouse books get a sample and see what I mean : }

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  • Posted June 27, 2011

    Highly Recommended!

    A Good Night For Ghosts is #42 in the Magic Tree House Series. This story follows Jack and Annie to New Orleans as they are commissioned to convince Louis "Dipper" Armstrong to follow his music and bring his gift of music to the world. As Jack and Annie follow Dipper around New Orleans on the eve of All Saints Day they meet Dipper's friends, they are terrified by pirate ghosts, eat gumbo and doughnuts, and learn to sing scat. This historical fiction story is full of adventure and excitement and teaches children to remain positive and follow your dreams.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 22, 2011

    Best one yet!

    The magic treehouse. A good night for ghoust is the best one in all the series! Ive read all the books ... so far but I am really looking forward for the next book.

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  • Posted February 23, 2011

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    This is a really great book.

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  • Posted February 21, 2011

    awsome

    I like magic treehouse books alot; I was thinking about being an author myself. When I was little magic treehouse books were the only book I would read. B. Hull

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  • Posted January 1, 2011

    one cool book

    its a cool book for kids like me!

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  • Posted December 25, 2010

    awsome

    awaome ghosts more awsomer

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  • Posted December 25, 2010

    awsome

    this book is gerat i cant put it down!,

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