02498cam a22003613u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000300012624500840015626400510024030000470029133600260033833700260036433800360039050000310042650801520045752012280060953400450183765300220188265300670190465300290197165300440200070000300204485600430207499900190211760941UtSlPG20260610134414.0mcr n260607r2019||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a14015370  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPZ1 aCrump, Irving,d1887-197910aJack Straw in Mexico: How the Engineers Defended the Great Hydro-Electric Plant 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2019  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2019-12-16  athe Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org)  a"Jack Straw in Mexico: How the Engineers Defended the Great Hydro-Electric Plant" by Irving Crump is a fictional adventure novel written in the early 20th century. The story follows young Jack Straw, a student at Drueryville Academy, who is entrusted with a crucial mission to deliver valuable blueprints for a lightning arrester to his uncle's power plant in Mexico amidst a tumultuous political climate. This adventure promises to be filled with peril, intrigue, and elements of engineering.   At the start of the narrative, Jack Straw and his friends deal with the disappointment of a canceled baseball game due to rain. Soon after, he is called upon by Dr. Moorland, the school principal, who reveals his father has consented to let him embark on an important journey to Mexico. Specifically, Jack learns he must deliver blueprints for a vital electrical apparatus to ensure the hydro-electric plant in Necaxa remains operational during political unrest. As Jack prepares for his trip, he encounters various characters and begins to grasp the importance of his task while also uncovering the dangerous world he is about to enter, setting the stage for his challenges ahead. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aAdventure stories  aMexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Juvenile fiction  aDams -- Juvenile fiction  aAmericans -- Mexico -- Juvenile fiction1 aCrump, Leslie,d1894-196240uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60941  c101767d101767