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"That's nuts," said Jack. "I want to sleep."

"No, it isn't. The moon makes it bright enough to see," said Annie.

But he got out of bed.

"No -- now," said Annie. "We have to find the fourth M thing. I have a feeling that the full moon might help us."

Jack opened his eyes. He saw a figure in the moonlight.

Jack looked at his clock. "Oh, man," he said. "It's midnight. It's too dark."

Jack yawned. He pulled on his jeans and sneakers and a sweatshirt. He put his notebook and pencil into his backpack. Then he crept down the stairs.

Jack turned on his lamp. He rubbed his eyes.

"Let's go to the tree house," she said.

Annie was standing beside his bed. She wore jeans and a sweatshirt.

"Wait till morning," said Jack.

"What time is it?" asked Jack. He put on his glasses.

"You can sleep when we come back home," said Annie. "No time will have passed."

"Wake up. Get dressed." It was his sister, Annie.

"Don't look at your clock," said Annie.

Jack sighed. "Oh, brother," he said.

"Yay!" whispered Annie. "Meet you at the back door." She tiptoed out of Jack's room.

"Jack!" whispered a voice.

"No, we don't. I told you -- the moon will light our way," said Annie. And she took off.

Annie was right, thought Jack. The moon was so bright that he could see his shadow. Everything seemed washed with silver.

"Careful -- go slowly," said Jack.

"There!" said Annie.

Jack looked up, searching for the tree house.

It shone on the three M things that rested on the M: a moonstone from the time of the ninjas, a mango from the Amazon rain forest, and a mammoth bone from the Ice Age.

The magic tree house was shining in the moonlight.

Annie grabbed the rope ladder and started climbing up.

"Wait --" said Jack. "We need a flashlight."

Soon they left their street. Annie led the way into the Frog Creek woods. It was much darker under the shadows of the trees.

Jack sighed, then followed her.

He followed her up the ladder and into the tree house.

Moonlight streamed through the window. It shone on the letter M that shimmered on the wooden floor.

Annie opened the back door. Quietly, they stepped outside.

"Peanut!" said Annie.

"There's no air. We couldn't breathe. Not only that, we'd boil to death if it was day and freeze to death if it was night."

"Uh-oh," he said. "I knew we should have brought a flashlight. I can't read a thing."

In the dim light, Jack saw a tiny mouse. She sat on an open book.

The letters were bigger on the cover. Jack squinted at them.

Jack held the book up to the moonlight.

"Look at the cover," said Annie.

"So where are we going this time?" Annie asked him.

Squeak.

"Yikes," said Annie. "So where do you think we are going?"

"It's called Hello, Moon," he said.

He could make out diagrams and shadowy pictures. But he couldn't read a word.

She picked up Peanut. And Jack picked up the open book.

"Why?"

"Of course not," said Jack. "It's impossible to go to the moon without tons of equipment."

Annie gasped. "We're going to the moon?"

"You didn't expect to see us this late, did you?" said Annie.

"We need just one more M thing," said Annie, "to free Morgan from her spell."

"Maybe a place where people train to be astronauts," said Jack.

"Yeah," said Jack. He'd always wanted to meet astronauts and space scientists.

"That sounds neat," said Annie.

The wind started to blow.

Jack opened the book again. He pointed to a picture of a dome-shaped structure. "I wish we could go there," he said.

It spun faster and faster and faster.

The tree house started to spin.

Then everything was silent.

Absolutely silent. As quiet and still as silence could be.

"So say the wish," said Annie.