Akron Public Library

Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse. Each book in the collection takes them to different places.

While on a mission to prove to Merlin that they can use magic wisely, Jack and Annie travel to seventeenth-century Venice, Italy, to save the city from disaster.

Armed with a research book and magic rhymes, Jack and Annie travel back 1,200 years to ancient Baghdad and help the city's ruler spread wisdom throughout the world.

When Merlin is weighed down by sorrows, Jack and Annie travel back to feudal Japan to learn one of the four secrets of happiness.

The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to Antarctica to search for the fourth secret of happiness for Merlin.

Jack and Annie travel to Vienna, Austria, in 1762 where they meet the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his sister and help save the budding genius' life.

Jack and Annie travel back to Victorian London when Merlin asks them to use their magic to inspire Charles Dickens to write "A Christmas Carol."

The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to Washington D.C. in the 1860s where they meet Abraham Lincoln and collect a feather that will help break a magic spell.

Jack and Annie travel to a monastery in the Swiss Alps where, with the help of St. Bernard dogs and magic, they seek the second of four special objects necessary to break the spell on the wizard Merlin's beloved penguin, Penny.

"Travel to Ancient Greece with Jack and Annie as they meet Alexander the Great and help tame his wild stallion"--