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The books

  • Dinosaurs Before Dark has Jack riding a freaking Pteranodon to return to the treehouse.
  • Afternoon on the Amazon: While looking for a mango, Jack and Annie end up navigating the Amazon river despite the larger predators lurking around.
  • Midnight on the Moon: Jack and Annie get to live out every child's dream to go space-walking over the moon.
  • Vacation under the Volcano: On their first story recovery mission, Jack and Annie are trapped within Pompeii during its infamous volcanic eruption. With no option left, they ask for help from the story. And who comes to help? Hercules helps to spirit them to safety.
  • Good Time for Ghosts: After Jack and Annie used the magic of the Wand of Dianthus, in disguise as a silver trumpet, there's nothing they can do to stop the ghost pirates. But Louis Armstrong picks it up and is so good with it that he makes the ghost pirates leave.
  • Danger in the Darkest Hour is Jack's greatest moment. He has to drive a bakery truck — with ten Jewish children inside — past a Nazi checkpoint. One mistake on his part will end in not only in his own death, but theirs as well, and Kathleen tells him she's made the truck invisible with her magic so he can pass. Assured of their safety, he pulls it off…but it's later revealed that she never cast the spell at all, because the despair of the seemingly hopeless situation she'd been stuck in prior to Jack and Anne arriving to help temporarily sapped her of her magic. Jack, a kid with no license or proper driving experience, managed to drive past and fool literal Nazi soldiers with nothing but his belief in a Magic Feather. Talk about Brass Balls.

The Movie

  • The Big Damn Heroes moment throughout:
    • The dolphin Annie freed saving Jack from drowning.
    • Jack saving Annie from the pirates.
    • Annie taking the bullet that was meant for Jack.

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