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Title: Young Indiana Jones and the Plantation Treasure (Young Indiana Jones, Book 1) by William McCay ISBN: 0-679-80579-6 Publisher: Random House Trade Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: The Scoobidoo approach to history
Comment: In the early 1990s, George Lucas, perhaps the greatest provider of popular culture in the twentieth century, produced what I consider to be the best TV series ever made, *The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles*, the concept of which was, in Lucas's own words, "to get kids involved in history through the Young Indiana Jones character".
The series had two actors impersonating young Indy: Corey Carrier was Indy from 1908 through 1911, and Sean Patrick Flannery was Indy from 1916 through 1921. As the actors matured, I supposed Lucas intended to have them explore the early 1910s and 20s. Unfortunately, the series petered out, and all we are left with is a collection of fifteen young adults books that fill the gap between the Carrier and Flannery periods, from the Spring of 1913 in this volume to December 1914 in *The Eye of the Tiger*.
*Young Indiana Jones and the Plantation Treasure* has thirteen-year old Indy join young Lizzie Ravenall (who returns in *The Curse of the Ruby Cross* and *Mountain of Fire*) in her quest for an ancient family treasure that has them trace a slave of her grandfather's through the remains of the Underground Railroad. The plot is pre-formatted Scoobidoo but, faithful to the vocation of the TV series, it manages to marble in some information on the antebellum South. Moreover, the slim volume contains five bibliographical references for kids who want to find out more, and a four-paragraph historical note which tells you that, contrary to the TV episodes, which always featured at least one important historical figure, "the main characters in the book are all made up", but that abolitionist Garrick Lloyd was based on William Lloyd Garrison and the slave Indy and Lizzie are looking for, Harriet Stoneman, had a real-life equivalent, Harriet Tubman.
All in all, it is a rather sympathetic adventure that might conceivably stimulate interest in history among younger readers.
(One continuity error I am having problems with is the allusion to the hat "that man gave me in Utah", a reference to the Utah, 1912 segment of *Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade*, in which an eighteen-year old River Phoenix played a thirteen-year old Indy. It is really hard to picture the hero of this book as Phoenix one year older. But then the fault lies with the movie, not the book.)
Rating: 4
Summary: Before Raiders of the Lost Ark. . .
Comment: Before Raiders of the Lost Ark, meet Young Indy in this great book about treasure. While on business with his father, he meets a girl named Lizzie Ravenall who is searching for her family treasure. She, Indy and his father go all across the Eastern Seaboard following the Underground Railroad to find the treasure.
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Title: Young Indiana Jones and the Circle of Death (Young Indiana Jones, Book 3) by William McCay ISBN: 0679805788 Publisher: Random House Trade Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $2.95 |
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Title: Young Indiana Jones and the Tomb of Terror (Young Indiana Jones, Book 2) by Les Martin ISBN: 0679805818 Publisher: Random House Trade Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Ruby Cross (Young Indiana Jones, Book 8) by William McCay ISBN: 0679811818 Publisher: Random House Children's Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1991 List Price(USD): $2.95 |
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Title: Young Indiana Jones and the Princess of Peril by Les Martin ISBN: 0679811788 Publisher: Random House Children's Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1991 List Price(USD): $2.95 |
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Title: The Mata Hari Affair (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Book 1) by James Luceno ISBN: 0345380096 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1992 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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