Vacation Under the Volcano
Published in 1989, Vacation Under the Volcano is a time-travel fiction novella by Mary Pope Osborne. The story is set in Pompeii, Extinct city and Vesuvius, Italy, in Eruption, 79. It deals with tree houses, time travel, magic and volcanoes.
Open Library readers give it an average of 4.6 out of 5 from 5 ratings, and 30 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 30 editions across 8 languages.
It runs to roughly 76 pages — about an hour and a half of reading at an average pace.
About Vacation Under the Volcano
Their magic tree house takes Annie and Jack to Pompeii just as Vesuvius is about to erupt, and they must find a Roman scroll before everything is covered with burning ash.
Quick answers
Who wrote Vacation Under the Volcano?
Vacation Under the Volcano was written by Mary Pope Osborne and first published in 1989.
What genre is Vacation Under the Volcano?
It is usually shelved as Time Travel.
How long is Vacation Under the Volcano?
The median edition has 76 pages, about about an hour and a half of reading at 250 words per minute.
What books are similar to Vacation Under the Volcano?
Readers who like it often enjoy A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet #3), Artemis Fowl and The Dark Is Rising.
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