Magic Tree House: Merlin Mission 18*

Dogs in the Dead of Night

by Mary Pope Osborne

Release: August 2011
Format: Novelette
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Children
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Jack and Annie travel to a monastery in the Swiss Alps where, with the help of St. Bernard dogs and magic, they seek the second of four special objects necessary to break the spell on Merlin’s pet penguin, Penny.

— based on fandom.com

DEBUT

Dogs in the Dead of Night (Random House, August 2011) [print · e-book].

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 2000 to 2099: based on a date of 2019 in To the Future, Ben Franklin!
Unspecified Past Year: [Need to check this.]

Timeline Models

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

Time Travel Methods

Fictional Tags

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

Groupings

Magic Tree House (story series): Merlin Mission 18 [originally Magic Tree House 47 in the pre-2017 numbering system]

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From the magic tree house in Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, circa 2019 ⋙ to medieval Switzerland at an unknown time. Round trip.