The Magic Tree House 23

Twister on Tuesday

by Mary Pope Osborne

Release: Marcy 2001
Format: Early Chapter Book
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Children
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Jack and Annie go to a one-room schoolhouse on the Kansas prairie where they save everyone from a twister and find the third piece of writing to save Camelot.

— Michael Main

Suddenly, the schoolhouse door blew off its hinges! It went flying through the air!

DEBUT

Twister on Tuesday (Random House, Marcy 2001).

VARIANTS

2 English variants

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 1800 to 1899: 1870s Kansas prairie
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

Oregon Trail and Other Covered Wagon Trails

Fictional Tags

Morgan le Fay: offstage

Groupings

Magic Tree House (story series): 23

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From the magic tree house in Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, circa 2019 ⋙ to the Kansas prairie, in the 1870s. Round trip. Note: Jack and Annie in the tree house.