Ghost Town at Sundown
- by Mary Pope Osborne
- Early Chapter Book
- Fantasy
- Children
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- Ghost Town at Sundown by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, September 1997).
Jack and Annie head back to the Old West where they meet a piano-playing ghost, cattle rustlers, and a cowboy who’s a budding writer.
—Michael Main
“Slim, you should write your book,” said Annie.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1800 to 1899: Not much earlier than 1890 because “Red River Valley” was written circa 1890s. And no later than 1895, since that's the date that Slim’s book was published.
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: based on a date of 2019 in To the Future, Ben Franklin!
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- Single Consistent Timeline: Within the series, anything the kids do seems to fit known history rather than change it.
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- Themes
- Causal Loops: A bit of a causal loop when Slim’s book causes Annie and Jack to travel back in time, and when they are back in time, Annie encourages Slim to write his book. I think this falls short of an artist paradox because Slim never sees much of the book, nor do Annie and Jack tell him much about it.
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- Ghost Town at Sundown by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, September 1997).
- audio reading.Ghost Town at Sundown by Mary Pope Osborne, in Magic Treehouse Collection, Books 9–16, Listening Library, October 2003.
- alternative title.A Wild West Ride by Mary Pope Osborne (Red Fox, January 2009).