Magic Tree House: Merlin Mission 16*

A Ghost Tale for Christmas Time

by Mary Pope Osborne

• Release: September 2010
• Format: Novelette
• Genre: Fantasy
• Audience: Children
• Content: Definite Time Travel
• Original Language: English

VARIANTS

1 English variant

PRIOR WORKS

inspired by A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843)

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

• Circa AD 1800 to 1899: Victorian London
• 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

• Magic Time Travel
• Wish Travel

Real-World Tags

• Charles Dickens
• Christmas

Fictional Tags

• Dickensian Guides: [Need to check this.]
• Ghosts: [Need to check this.]
• Merlin: possibly offstage [Need to check this.]
• Morgan le Fay: [Need to check this.]

Groupings

• Magic Tree House (story series): Merlin Mission 16 [originally Magic Tree House 45 in the pre-2017 numbering system]

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

1. From the magic tree house in Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, circa 2019 ⋙ to London, circa 1840. Round trip.