儿童读物 神奇树屋 08 - Midnight on the Moon.doc,PAGE PAGE 1 Midnight on the Moon Magic Tree House #8 Prologue One summer day in Frog Creek, Eight-year-old Jack and his seven-year-old sister, Annie, climbed into the tree house. The tree house was filled w
With the help of a mouse named Peanut,Jack and Annie found the first thing in old Japan, the second in the Amazon rain forest, and the third in the Ice Age. Now Jack,Annie,and Peanut are ready to find the last thing...in Midnight on the Moon. 1 By Moonlight “Jack!”whispered a...
Jack finally reaches the elusive Fourth Tower and discovers that it has 12 levels, each a world in itself. He uses the tricks he has learned from his friends at Inverness to traverse the tower, from Lady Jowls lessons on the Tibetan Wheel of Life to his being the victim of a prank that...
“Maybe she’s nervous about being on the moon,” said Annie. “She’s not the only one,” said Jack. He let out a deep breath, then he pushed his glasses into place. “So what’s a moon base?” asked Annie. Jack looked at the book. He read aloud: When scientists visit ...
Then she put her foot on the brake until the buggy stopped. She pressed a button that said OFF. Then she and Jack hopped out. They took slow giant steps to the site of the first moon landing. Beside the flag was a sign. Annie read it aloud: HERE MEN FROM THE PLANET EARTH ...
Many years later, when the hole inside him had been clogged up with hate, and he came to sacrifice himself at the shrine47 of the black stone god in the temple on the hill, he would try and recall his childhood springs in Paradise, the way it was before travel and tussocks and army...
We shall be watching over your life with the closest attention; it will be, in a sense, the mirror of our own.' And Mary Pereira, awestruck, 'The Government, Madam? It will be keeping one eye on the boy? But why, Madam? What's wrong with him?' -And Amina, not understanding the...