Season of the Sandstorms

　　本書為圖書館版 (Library Binding)

　　靠著一本參考書和一本魔法詩集，傑克和安妮回到了1200年前巴格達的黃金時代。他們降落在沙漠的綠洲上，跟著駱駝商隊前往巴格達，不幸的是，他們半路遇見了強盜的攻擊，有人把一個奇怪的盒子交給這對小兄妹，要他們用生命保護它。才剛躲開強盜，緊接著又遇上強烈的沙塵暴，傑克和安妮可以平安的到達巴格達嗎？他們能解開盒子的祕密嗎？

　　★本書中譯本《神奇樹屋34：飛毯奇遇記》由小天下出版

作者簡介

瑪麗．波．奧斯本(Mary Pope Osborne)

　　美國知名兒童文學作家，北卡羅萊納大學主修戲劇與比較宗教學，喜愛不同文化的她，畢業之後，曾到世界各地去旅行。寫作至今已20餘年，作品超過50本以上，並獲得許多獎項，而且擔任過兩屆的美國作家協會主席。

　　* Mary Pope Osborne grew up in the military, and by the time she was fifteen had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida and four different army posts in Virginia and North Carolina.

　　* After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the early 1970's, Mary traveled all over Europe, and spent the first six weeks of her trip living in a cave on the island of Crete. She then joined up with a group of European young people and traveled in rickety vans through sixteen Asian countries, including Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal.

　　* She was a bartender, an acting teacher, a waitress, a travel agent, a window dresser, and a medical assistant -- all before becoming an author! Now she is the author of many highly acclaimed picture books, early chapter books, middle-grade biographies, and young adult novels.

　　* In February 1993, Mary was elected the 27th president of the Author's Guild, the oldest, most established organization for writers in the United States.

　　* Mary her husband Will spilt their time between an apartment in Greenwich Village, New York and a cabin in Pennsylvania. They own a terrier named Bailey, who sleeps on the top of Mary's desk every day while she writes!