The Knight at Dawn

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Text copyright © 1993 by Mary Pope Osborne.
Illustrations copyright © 1993 by Sal Murdocca.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Osborne, Mary Pope. The knight at dawn /
by Mary Pope Osborne; illustrated by Sal Murdocca. p. cm. — (The Magic tree house series; #2) “A First stepping stone book.”
SUMMARY: Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie use the magic tree house to travel back to the Middle Ages, where they explore a castle and are helped by a mysterious knight.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89419-0
[1. Time travel—Fiction. 2. Castles—Fiction.
3. Middle Ages—Fiction. 4. Knights and knighthood—Fiction.
5. Magic—Fiction. 6. Tree houses—Fiction.]
I. Murdocca, Sal, ill. II. Title. III. Series:
Osborne, Mary Pope. Magic tree house series; #2.
PZ7.O81167Kn 1993 [Fic]—dc20 92-13705
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For Nathaniel Pope



Jack couldn’t sleep.
    He put his glasses on. He looked at the clock. 5:30.
    Too early to get up.
    Yesterday so many strange things had happened. Now he was trying to figure them out.
    He turned on the light. He picked up his notebook. He looked at the list he’d made before going to bed.

    Jack pushed his glasses into place. Who was going to believe any of this?
    Not his mom. Or his dad. Or his third-grade teacher, Ms. Watkins. Only his seven-year-old sister, Annie. She’d gone with him to the time of the dinosaurs.
    â€œCan’t you sleep?”
    It was Annie, standing in his doorway.
    â€œNope,” said Jack.
    â€œMe neither,” said Annie. “What are you doing?”
    She walked over to Jack and looked at his notebook. She read the list.
    â€œAren’t you going to write about the gold medal?” she asked.
    â€œYou mean the gold medallion,” said Jack.
    He picked up his pencil and wrote:

    â€œAren’t you going to put the letter M on the medal?” said Annie.
    â€œMedallion,” said Jack. “Not medal.”
    He added an M:

    â€œAren’t you going to write about the magic person?” said Annie.
    â€œWe don’t know for sure if there is a magic person,” said Jack.
    â€œWell, someone built the tree house in the woods. Someone put