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Magic Tree House #14

by Mary Pope Osborne, Salvatore Murdocca (Illustrator)

In adventure 14 Jack and Annie travel to Ancient China, where they meet the powerful emperor known as the Dragon King. He decrees that all books should be burned. Will Jack and Annie be able to save the books and avoid be captured by the emperor's soldiers?

Genres: Childrens, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Chapter Books, Adventure, Middle Grade

68 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1998

About the author

Mary Pope Osborne is an American author of children's books and audiobook narrator. She is best known as the author of the Magic Tree House series, which as of 2017 sold more than 134 million copies worldwide. Both the series and Osborne have won awards, including for Osborne's charitable efforts at promoting children's literacy. One of four children, Osborne moved around in her childhood before attending the University of North Carolina. Following college, Osborne traveled before moving to New York City. She somewhat spontaneously began to write, and her first book was published in 1982. She went on to write a variety of other children's and young adult books before starting the Magic Tree House series in 1992. Osborne's sister Natalie Pope Boyce has written several compendium books to the Magic Tree House series, sometimes with Osborne's husband Will Osborne.

Reviews

[Bookishrealm · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not as stressful as the installment before, but still! Morgan, stop putting my babies in danger!!! They are slowly but surely collecting these stories so I'm excited to see what's going to happen next in this story arc.

[Jasmine from How Useful It Is · Rating 5 out of 5]

Listened to this audiobook with my first grader. She worked on stickers by number while I crochet!

This story followed siblings Jack and Annie. They're now Masters Librarian and going on missions to save books before it got destroyed. In this story, they traveled back to the time of the Dragon King Emperor where he had people built the wall of China and the tomb for himself consisted of thousands of soldiers and horses to prepare himself for the afterlife. Jack and Annie went to the house of the emperor to save a book. They almost got caught and ran inside the tomb. They got lost but when in the time of need, they always got help when asked. Help comes in different forms. This story has some humor when they met a scholar who pretended he wasn't because books were being destroyed at the time and scholars' lives were in danger.

We listened to this audiobook via Cloud Library app.

[Charissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is also one of my favorites! It is so informative and I had learned a lot of things about Ancient China.

[Joyce C · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is my earliest memory of finding a book in the public library and reading a chapter book on my own. I recall being entirely enraptured by the adventure of these two kids in ancient China. Being Asian myself, I was entirely thrilled by the mixture of history and cultural myths (all of which I had vaguely heard from my grandparents and during class before)and how it all blended into this amazing story that made me entirely too envious of Annie and Jack's magic tree house.

Every book in this series is action-packed and fun while still chock full historic and scientific facts that were super intriguing for a kid, and it always made me super proud to learn all of these things BEFORE they were taught in school.

I've outgrown the series now; but I will rate it as I felt when I had read it for the first time--I will rate it as the target audience the book is intended for--and give it an excellent 5 stars.

[Ashley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kids loved it

[Shadyside Library · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nothing like a good ole trip to China! I found this one quite fascinating as it takes place a long time ago and facts are sprinkled in throughout the book. A little thrilling and a little wholesome. A nice balance for Jack and Annie ❤️

[Valentina Markasović · Rating 3 out of 5]

I dislike this story arc of saving one (1) book from all these libraries that are getting destroyed throughout history. What's stopping them from saving as many as they can? While we're at this, what's stopping them from travelling to the same place multiple times to save even more books??

[Kat V · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one was alright. 4 stars

[Book2Dragon · Rating 5 out of 5]

About the find of the statues guarding the tomb of the Dragon King in ancient China, at Morgan La Fay's request. The Master Librarians set out to save a book when the Dragon King orders all books burned.

[Micah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I didn't like it at the beginning because it's scary. They got stuck some place in a tomb where the dragon king was going to be dead in, but they saved the book before it caught on fire.

[Pallavi · Rating 3 out of 5]

****3.5****

A good book on China.

Happy Reading!!

[Christopher Silber · Rating 5 out of 5]

My first good read

[Evie · Rating 5 out of 5]

why would you burn books? that's very sad. No one should burn them. The dragon king did this!

[Landon Reynolds]

I like it

[Alice4170 🌙 · Rating 5 out of 5]

5/5 ⭐

[Mister_T1313 · Rating 4 out of 5]

In this book Jack and Annie risk their lives getting the ancient story about the Silk Weaver. I like it because they go in the Dragon King's tomb, get lost, and get saved by the story. I see that the Dragon King wants everybody to think what he thinks.
4 STARS⭐⭐⭐⭐

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"sixty million stars!"

[Stacy Renee (LazyDayLit) · Rating 3 out of 5]

We are continuing the Magic Tree House series this year!
We left off in Pompeii to travel to China with Jack & Annie in search of an ancient bamboo book that needs rescuing!

[Martine · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5/5

It's a corn maze but actually clay warriors instead of corn

[Kinzlie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love magic tree house books this one was so fun

[Erin · Rating 5 out of 5]

An absolute classic

[Hope Anderson (HopelessBookAddict) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great!

[Dusty · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of interesting facts about ancient China, including the bamboo strips that recorded their oldest stories. The Dragon King himself was not a very threatening antagonist.

[elizabeth (spencer reid's version) · Rating 4 out of 5]

read this to the girls I babysit

[Sophia s · Rating 5 out of 5]

i'm literally jack & annie

[Kathryn Best · Rating 3 out of 5]

I feel like this story missed out on some learning opportunities, BUT it did open up an interesting conversation with my 4yo about burning books and controlling education.

[Lixie · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a kid i read this book so often i could recite some parts of it

[Katie Fitch · Rating 4 out of 5]

We took a journey to ancient China when the Great Wall was being built!

[Abigail]

Trying to break the very bad reading slump

[Jinan · Rating 3 out of 5]

A book for kiddos, yet interesting even for an adult.

Filled with smol seeds of inspiration for one to further research into; in history, science, mythology.