The Magic Tree House 32*

To the Future, Ben Franklin!

by Mary Pope Osborne

• Release: July 2019
• Format: Early Chapter Book
• Genre: Fantasy
• Audience: Children
• Content: Definite Time Travel
• Original Language: English

Morgan’s telling us to take Ben to Frog Creek. To our time.

VARIANTS

2 English variants

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

• Circa AD 1700 to 1799: The US Constitutional Convention, 1787
• Circa AD 2000 to 2099: “How about 2019?” said Annie. This is the first time we’ve spotted a present-day date in the series, so we’ll assume all the books are set around 2019.

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

Themes

• True Histories: the true history of how Ben Franklin was convinced to sign the Constitution

Real-World Tags

• Benjamin Franklin
• George Washington

Fictional Tags

• Morgan le Fay: She appears in person at the end and meets Ben.

Groupings

• Magic Tree House (story series): 32

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

1. From the magic tree house in Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, circa 2019 ⋙ to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [d]1787[/d]. Round trip. Note: Jack and Annie in the tree house to the US Constitutional Convention.