Magic Tree House: Merlin Mission 10*

Monday with a Mad Genius

by Mary Pope Osborne

Release: August 2007
Format: Novelette
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Children
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Jack and Annie travel 500 years back in time to Florence, Italy, and spend a day helping Leonardo da Vinci in the hope of learning another secret of happiness.

— based on fandom.com

DEBUT

Monday with a Mad Genius (Random House, August 2007) [print · e-book].

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Early Modern History (AD 1454 to 1600): Florence during the life of da Vinci
Circa AD 2000 to 2099: based on a date of 2019 in To the Future, Ben Franklin!

Timeline Models

Single Static Timeline: Within the series, anything the kids do seems to fit known history rather than change it.

Time Travel Methods

Real-World Tags

Leonardo da Vinci

Fictional Tags

Merlin: possibly offstage [Need to check this.]
Morgan le Fay: [Need to check this.]

Groupings

Magic Tree House (story series): Merlin Mission 10 [originally Magic Tree House 39 in the pre-2017 numbering system]

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From the magic tree house in Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, circa 2019 ⋙ to Florence, circa AD 1500. Round trip.