This is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical and public figures, are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Where real-life historical or public figures appear, the situations, incidents, and dialogues concerning those persons are fictional and are not intended to depict actual events or to change the fictional nature of the work. In all other respects, any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2014 by Mary Pope Osborne

Cover art and interior illustrations copyright © 2014 by Sal Murdocca

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in hardcover as Magic Tree House #52 in 2014.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition of this work as follows:

Osborne, Mary Pope.

Soccer on Sunday / by Mary Pope Osborne ; illustrated by Sal Murdocca.

pages  cm. — (Magic tree house ; #52)

Summary: “Jack and Annie search for the fourth secret of greatness for Merlin the Magician in Mexico City at the 1970 World Cup Games. They hope to learn something new from soccer player great, Pele.” —Provided by publisher.

ISBN 978-0-307-98053-3 (trade) — ISBN 978-0-307-98054-0 (lib. bdg.) — ISBN 978-0-307-98055-7 (ebook) — ISBN 978-0-307-98056-4 (pbk.)

[1. Magic—Fiction. 2. Time travel—Fiction. 3. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 4. Soccer—Fiction. 5. Pelé, 1940—Fiction. 6. Mexico—History—1946–1970—Fiction.] I. Murdocca, Sal, illustrator. II. Title.

PZ7.O81167 Sl 2014 [Fic]—dc23 2013042092

Ebook ISBN 9780307980557

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