Stage Fright on a Summer Night, Magic Tree House

Brother and sister Jack and Annie follow a shooting star to their magic tree house and they see Morgan le Fey who has a mission for them. She sends them back to Elizabethan England to find magic. Jack and Annie only have a rhyme to try discover magic all the while exploring England. They come upon a play and the writer William Shakespeare needs two replacements to read in his play for the queen. Even though girls are not allowed to be on stage and Jack has terrible stage fright, the two do an amazing job. The queen is pleased with the play and gives a speech and Jack and Annie learn the magic of turning day into night...on stage.

I personally think this is a poorly written story but the characters are believable and have personalities that could teach young people how to be a better person. This story is full of precise vocabulary and teaches the reader new language from Elizabethan time.

Osborne, Mary, & Murdocca, Sal. (2002). Stage fright on a summer night. Random House Books for Young Readers.