Earthquake In The Early Morning (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
The year is 1906, the place is San Francisco. Annie and her brother, Jack, have just traveled here in their magic tree house, on a mission from Morgan le Fay, the mysterious magical librarian from King Arthur's time. In an effort to save Camelot, the children have already found three special kinds of writing for Morgan's library: something to follow (Civil War on Sunday), something to send (Revolutionary War on Wednesday), and something to learn (Twister on Tuesday). Now it's time to find "something to lend." It's a quiet, peaceful morning in San Francisco, and Annie is eager to start exploring. So eager, in fact, that she pulls Jack away from his research just before he would have learned a very important piece of information... All too soon, the siblings figure it out for themselves: they have arrived in this lovely city a moment before one of the biggest earthquakes the U.S. has ever known shakes the Bay Area to pieces! Stunned, Jack and Annie wander the streets, but quickly find a purpose. Lots of people need help transporting goods to safety, and many more are left without any idea where to go or what to do. But what about their mission? Will the kids find something to lend before the entire city goes up in flames?Mary Pope Osborne's tremendously popular Magic Tree House series offers young readers a chance to immerse themselves in spellbinding adventures even as they learn about history. The terrible San Francisco earthquake is described with great historical accuracy, but with admirable age-appropriateness.
I'm a second generation Californian. My roots here only go back as far as the end of WWII but it's enough to have a solid respect for earthquakes in my blood. Having lived in the Bay Area now for more than a decade, Mary Pope Osborne's book Earthquake in the Early Morning instantly brings to mind just what it should: the San Francisco earthquake that struck just before dawn on April 18, 1906.Although there are only a handful of survivors left (and all of them were infants), the earthquake is still commemorated with a ringing of a bell at the time the earthquake struck. The anniversary also always brings reminders of the big ones still to come and dire warnings of what will most likely happen when the Hayward fault finally ruptures. I'm two and half miles away from the fault and can see the way it slowly but surely warps the streets and sidewalks of downtown Hayward.In Earthquake in the Early Morning Jack and Annie go back in time to experience the earthquake and the aftermath. They try to help survivors and have some limited success. Their time in the City is spent experiencing the fires, the rubble and the tent cities.The best parts of the book though are the illustrations. Usually I just pass over them but this time they struck me as familiar. Sean and I researched the illustrations together and found some of the photographs from the aftermath of the quake that must have inspired the scenes depicted and illustrated.Out of the books in the series I've read Earthquake in the Early Morning is among my favorites.
What do You think about Earthquake In The Early Morning (2010)?
In the final of four journeys to find written works that will help them save Camelot, Jack and Annie find themselves in San Francisco on the morning of the Great Shake in 1906. They meet a news reporter and end up being photographed---luckily they are so dirty they are unrecognizable. They obtain a very interesting writing about being hopeful from a boy, as a sign of gratitude for items that Jack and Annie lend to him and his brother. What makes is interesting is that it is written on a piece of
—Patricia
Jack and Annie go to San Francisco and they think they're supposed to find something to lend because Camelot is in trouble. But then theres an earthquake and they don't know it, but they find out and Jack just wants to go home but Annie says no because they have to find something to lend. They lend shoes to two of these boys that lost their shoes in the earthquake and the boys give them something too. The earthquake was really big. There was a person who tried to move a piano across the earthquake and Annie fell into the earthquake so Jack started dropping bricks so Annie could stack them and get out of the earthquake
—Calvin Kwon
1. Rondom House level.?2.11/26=100min3. Jack Annie visit Eathquake San Francisco help4.There is no water and still less soap, we have no city, but lots of hope.It says whenever we have hope even if we are in really bad situation. I'd like to believe this phrase.5. This story is a part of series, so at first I didn't notice that and I couldn't understand clearly, but main story is easy to understand even if I haven't read this series. In this series, Jack and Annie collect writings, and in this story, they had to find last one writing. I thought the way of finding writing was really nice. They helped people and they could get writing, "There is no water and still less soap, we have no city, but lots of hope."I'd like to believe there is hope when I am depressed.
—Shuhei
