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The year is 1906, the place is San Francisco. Annie and her brother, Jack, have just traveled here in their magic tree house, on a mission from Morgan le Fay, the mysterious magical librarian from King Arthur's time. In an effort to save Camelot, the children have already found three special kinds of writing for Morgan's library: something to follow (Civil War on Sunday), something to send (Revolutionary War on Wednesday), and something to learn (Twister on Tuesday). Now it's time to find "something to lend."
It's a quiet, peaceful morning in San Francisco, and Annie is eager to start exploring. So eager, in fact, that she pulls Jack away from his research just before he would have learned a very important piece of information... All too soon, the siblings figure it out for themselves: they have arrived in this lovely city a moment before one of the biggest earthquakes the U.S. has ever known shakes the Bay Area to pieces!
Stunned, Jack and Annie wander the streets, but quickly find a purpose. Lots of people need help transporting goods to safety, and many more are left without any idea where to go or what to do. But what about their mission? Will the kids find something to lend before the entire city goes up in flames?
故事发生在1906年的旧金山。安妮和哥哥杰克乘坐神奇树屋来到这里，执行来自亚瑟王时代神秘魔法图书管理员摩根·勒菲交付的任务。为了拯救卡梅洛，他们已经为图书馆找到了三种特殊的“书写之物”：可遵循的（《星期天的南北战争》）、可传递的（《星期三的独立战争》），以及可学习的（《星期二的龙卷风》）。现在，他们要寻找的是“可以借出的东西”。
旧金山的清晨宁静而美好，安妮迫不及待想要去探索这座城市，甚至在杰克还没来得及查到一条至关重要的信息时，就把他拉走了……不久之后，兄妹俩才恍然大悟：他们竟然来到了这座美丽城市遭遇灾难的前一刻——美国历史上最严重的地震之一即将发生，整个旧金山湾区将被震得天翻地覆！
震惊之余，杰克和安妮在街头徘徊，但很快找到了新的目标。许多人需要帮助把物资转移到安全的地方，还有更多人不知所措，不知道该去哪里、该怎么办。然而，他们的任务又该如何完成？在整座城市被大火吞噬之前，兄妹俩能否找到那个“可以借出的东西”？
Fact
Earthquake地震，指的是地壳内部积累的能量突然释放，导致地面发生震动的自然现象。最常见的原因是地下岩层在板块运动的挤压、拉伸或错动中突然破裂，释放出的能量以地震波的形式向外传播，于是人们就会感觉到地面摇晃。地震有强有弱，轻微时可能只是短暂震动，强烈时则会造成房屋倒塌、地面开裂、山体滑坡，甚至引发海啸。the Great Shake指的是 1906 年 4 月 18 日的旧金山大地震。这场地震震级约为 7.9 级，随后又引发大火，对旧金山和整个湾区造成了极其严重的破坏Golden Gate Park旧金山著名的金门公园。它本来是一座大型城市公园，但在 1906 年地震和火灾之后，这里一度成了许多灾民的避难场所。旧金山市政府官方历史资料提到，当时有大量无家可归的居民在公园里搭建简易住处，后来还住进了临时木屋。
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