The Magic Tree House 8

Midnight on the Moon

by Mary Pope Osborne

Release: October 1996
Format: Early Chapter Book
Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy
Audience: Children
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

For the first time, the tree house takes Jack and Annie to the future and off the Earth!

— Michael Main

Jack nodded. “The book says the moon base was built in 2031,” he said. “So this book was written after that! Which means this book os from the future!.”

DEBUT

Midnight on the Moon (Random House, October 1996).

VARIANTS

3 English variants

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 2000 to 2099: starting date (based on a date of 2019 in To the Future, Ben Franklin!) and date of the moon base

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

Morgan le Fay: She was with the kids all along, but in the form of Peanut the mouse!

Groupings

Magic Tree House (story series): 8

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From the magic tree house in Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, circa 2019 ⋙ to a moon base, some time after 2031. Round trip. Note: Jack and Annie in the treehouse.
From the magic tree house in Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, circa 2019 ⋙ to Camelot, the Middle Ages. Note: Morgan le Fay in the treehouse.