Dinosaurs Before Dark
1 Into the Woods
“Help!A monster!” said Annie.
“Yeah，sure，” said Jack. “A real monster in Frog Creek， Pennsylvania.”
“Run，Jack！” said Annie. She ran up the road.
Oh，brother.
This is what he got for spending time with his ven-year-old sister.
Annie loved pretend stuff. But Jack was eight and a half. He liked real things.
“Watch out, Jack! The monster’s coming! Race you!”
“No，thanks,” said Jack.
Annie raced alone into the woods.
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ack looked at the sky. The sun was about to t.
“Come on，Annie! It’s time to go home!”
But Annie had disappeared.
Jack waited.
No Annie.
“Annie!” he shouted again.
“Jack!Jack!Come here!”
Jack groaned. “This better be good，” he said.
Jack left the road and headed into the woods.The trees were lit with agolden late-afternoon light.
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re!” called Annie.
There she was. Standing under a tall oak tree. “Look，” she said. She was pointing at a rope ladder.
The longest rope ladder Jack had ever en.
“Wow，” he whispered.
The ladder went all the way up to the top of the tree.
There—at the top—was a tree hou. It was tucked between two branches.
“That must be the highest tree hou in the world，” said Annie.
“Who built it ?” asked Jack. “I’ve never en it before.”
“I don’t know. But I’m going up，” said Annie.
“No. We don’t know who it belongs to，” said Jack.
“Just for a teeny minute，”said Annie. She started up the ladder.
“Annie，come back!”
She kept climbing.
Jack sighed. “Annie，it’s almost dark. We have to go home.”
Annie disappeared inside the tree hou.
“An-nie!”
Jack waited a moment. He was about to call again when Annie poked her
head out of the tree hou window.
“Books!” she shouted.
“What?”
“It’s filled with books！”
Oh，man！Jack loved books.
He pushed his glass into place. He gripped the sides of the rope lad der，and up he went.
2 The Monster
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bsp; Jack crawled through a hole in the tree hou floor.
Wow. The tree hou was filled with books. Books everywhere. Very old
books with dusty covers. New books with shiny, bright covers. “Look. You can e far, far away,” said Annie. She was peering out the tree hou window.
Jack looked out the window with her. Down below were the tops of the other trees. In the distance he saw the Frog Creek library. The element ary school. The park.
Annie pointed in the other direction.
“There’s our hou，” she said.
Sure enough. There was their white wooden hou with the green porch.
Next door was their neighbor’s black dog，Henry. He looked very tiny.
“Hi，Henry！” shouted Annie.
“Shush！” said Jack. “We’re not suppod to be up here.”
He glanced around the tree hou again.
“I wonder who owns all the books，”he said. He noticed bookmarks were sticking out of many of them.
“I like this one，” said Annie. She held up a book with a castle on the cover.
“Here’ s a book about Pennsylvania，”said Jack. He turned to the page with the bookmark.
“Hey，there’ s a picture of Frog Creek in here，” said Jack. “It’s a picture of the woods!”
“Oh，here’s a book for you，”said Annie. She held up a book about dinosaurs. A blue silk bookmark was sticking out of it.
“Let me e it.” Jack t down his backpack and grabbed the book from her.
“You look at that one，and I’ ll look at the one about castles，”said Annie.
“No，We better not，” said Jack. “We don’t know who the books belong to.”
But even as he said this，Jack opened the dinosaur book to where the b
ookmark was. He couldn’t help himlf.
He turned to a picture of an ancient flying reptile. A Pteranodon.
He touched the huge bat-like wings.
“Wow，” whispered Jack. “I wish I could e a Pteranodon for real.”
Jack studied the picture of the odd-looking creature soaring through the sky.
“Ahhh!” screamed Annie.
“What？” said Jack.
“A monster！” Annie crie小学学习方法
d. She pointed to the tree hou window.
“Stop pretending，Annie”， said Jack.
“No，really!” said Annie.
Jack looked out the window.
A giant creature was gliding above the treetops！He had a long， weird
crest on the back of his head. A skinny beak. And huge bat-like wings!
It was a real live Pteranodon!
