Day of the Dragon King by Mary Pope Osborne

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Dear Readers,
    I have long wanted to send Jack and Annie to China, but I couldn’t figure out what period of history they should visit. Then one day, when I was reading in my local library, I stumbled across some amazing information. In the 1970s, archaeologists began excavating a great wonder in China: an ancient burial tomb with over 7,000 statues of soldiers and horses. The tomb was more than 2,000 years old and had been built for the first Chinese emperor.
    After I learned this, I found other library books about that period of Chinese history, and I spent days reading and taking notes. From these notes, I fashioned Day of the Dragon King.
    Have I told you before that libraries are very important to me? They are my magic places … where I dream and wonder … and spin my stories.
    Visit your library and I bet you’ll find the same magic!
    All my best,



Text copyright © 1998 by Mary Pope Osborne
Illustrations copyright © 1998 by Sal Murdocca
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Osborne, Mary Pope.
Day of the Dragon King / by Mary Pope Osborne; illustrated by Sal Murdocca.
    p. cm. — (Magic tree house; #14) “Stepping Stone book.”
SUMMARY: The magic treehouse takes Jack and Annie back two thousand years to ancient China where they must find the original copy of an old legend before the Imperial Library is burned down by the evil Dragon King.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89471-8
[1. Time travel—Fiction. 2. China—History—Han dynasty, 202 B.C.–220 A.D.—Fiction. 3. Magic—Fiction. 4. Tree houses—Fiction.] I. Murdocca, Sal,