Project Gutenberg 2019-12-16 Public domain in the USA. 113 Crump, Irving 1887 1979 Crump, James Irving Crump, J. Irving (James Irving) Crump, Leslie 1894 1962 14015370 Jack Straw in Mexico: How the Engineers Defended the Great Hydro-Electric Plant the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) "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.) Reading ease score: 78.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Adventure stories Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Juvenile fiction Dams -- Juvenile fiction Americans -- Mexico -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Category: Adventure Category: Novels 285503 2025-06-24T08:52:49.803492 text/html 265502 2024-10-17T15:18:29 text/html 501251 2025-06-24T08:52:54.609476 application/epub+zip 501310 2025-06-24T08:52:50.700510 application/epub+zip 177159 2025-06-24T08:52:50.218478 application/epub+zip 603758 2025-06-24T08:52:57.995496 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 566447 2025-06-24T08:52:54.146491 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 243741 2022-09-27T14:29:22.996601 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 254474 2025-06-24T08:52:49.315575 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 234352 2024-10-17T15:18:29 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17871 2025-06-24T08:52:58.144436 application/rdf+xml 19634 2025-06-24T08:52:50.324466 image/jpeg 3752 2025-06-24T08:52:50.270499 image/jpeg 453146 2025-06-24T08:52:49.845492 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog