Vacation under the Volcano
- by Mary Pope Osborne
- Early Chapter Book
- Fantasy
- Children
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- Vacation under the Volcano by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, June 1998).
Jack and Annie take on their first mission as members of the Ancient Society of Master Librarians: retreiving a lost scroll from Pompeii!
—Michael Main
“This story was in a library in a Roman town. I need you to get it before thelibrary becomes lost.”
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: based on a date of 2019 in To the Future, Ben Franklin!
- Timeline Models
- Single Consistent Timeline: Within the series, anything the kids do seems to fit known history rather than change it.
- Time Travel Methods
- Themes
- Precognition, Premonition, or Prediction: “In Roman times, there were people who could see into the future and warn others about what they saw. These people were called soothsayers.”
- Real-World Tags
- Fictional Tags
- Hercules: “It’s called The Strongest Man in the World,” said Morgan. “It’s a lost tale about Hercules.”
- Morgan le Fay
- Groupings
Variants
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- Vacation under the Volcano by Mary Pope Osborne (Random House, June 1998).
- audio reading.Vacation under the Volcano by Mary Pope Osborne, in Magic Treehouse Collection, Books 9–16, Listening Library, October 2003.
- alternative title.Racing with Gladiators by Mary Pope Osborne (Red Fox, April 2009).