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Journey to Plum Creek
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The cave at Mount Bonnell, not far from the school Hannah, Nick, and Jackie attend in Austin, has attracted many visitors over the years, from Indians to Boy Scouts to historic reenactors. But when Jackie’s grandfather takes the trio there on an impromptu excursion, they meet a traveler of an entirely different sort: explorer Elijah Barrington, who has arrived there from the past. And accompanying him is a trunk that looks oddly familiar.
A slam of the trunk’s lid transports the girls into a melee of swirling hoofbeats and bright war paint. Before they know it, they’ve been taken captive by Comanche warriors in a raid on Victoria, Texas, in 1840. As they learn about life among the natives and participate reluctantly in another raid, Nick races east from Mount Bonnell on horseback in the company of Bigfoot Wallace, Jack Hays, and other Texas Rangers.
As the old order of Texas clashes with the new at the Battle of Plum Creek, the youngsters find themselves on opposing sides—but also find friendship in unexpected places.
Book Six in the award-winning time-travel series Mr. Barrington’s Mysterious Trunk
A slam of the trunk’s lid transports the girls into a melee of swirling hoofbeats and bright war paint. Before they know it, they’ve been taken captive by Comanche warriors in a raid on Victoria, Texas, in 1840. As they learn about life among the natives and participate reluctantly in another raid, Nick races east from Mount Bonnell on horseback in the company of Bigfoot Wallace, Jack Hays, and other Texas Rangers.
As the old order of Texas clashes with the new at the Battle of Plum Creek, the youngsters find themselves on opposing sides—but also find friendship in unexpected places.
Book Six in the award-winning time-travel series Mr. Barrington’s Mysterious Trunk
Author
Melodie A. Cuate
Fourth-grade teacher Melodie A. Cuate draws from extensive research, travel, and classroom experience for each new episode in Mr. Barrington’s Mysterious Trunk. In addition to writing, she conducts teacher workshops with curriculum developed specifically for the series, as well as school visits. She lives with her husband, Tony, in McAllen, Texas.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book is a historical fiction written of an event in Texas history. The author makes Texas history interesting to high school age people by inserting modern kids into the events. These modern Austin school kids are transported to the past for an event, then back to our modern world.At the time this book was written, the author had six books in the series which used this approach.The modern children have typical modern personalities, one has a cellphone. The mechanism for transport to the past is a magic trunk that the young people come across from time to time. Every time they open it, they are transported to another past in which a historical Texas event occurred. So this is the sixth time the trunk is encountered and the sixth adventure to the past.This approach is being used in the Magic Treehouse Series as well, by another author who is aiming at a slightly younger age audience.The story occupies 166 pages of the 171 page book, appropriate for high school age young people but not for beginning readers. Numerous paragraphs mention cruelty by the Indians on their pioneer captives, and terror of Indians by those in captivity and other settlers being chased. So I would limit the book in its entirety to high school age kids.Texas Archaeology Society has a very good reference with a title something like "From Dominance to Disappearance" that covers the Indian tribes in Texas through several centuries from just prior to the first European explorers through the end of the 19th century. In that book you can get the framework of why there was so much friction between Indians and settlers. This Plum Creek book does not set the framework for why captives were taken prior to the meeting in San Antonio at the Counsel House.But a story of an event is not a story of the entire century so the author does a fine job with this one event. I thought it was interesting to read and may get a few more of the series.
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