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Title: good old-style adventure for boys
Review: This book is one of the best in the Bomba series. These novels retain their ability to thrill. The young reader now enjoying them in our house is the grandson of the once-young boy who recommended them! Bomba is a white child, raised under mysterious circumstances deep in the Amazon. His efforts to discover his parentage, how and why he came to grow up in the jungle, drive the narrative. There is some low-level racial depiction (not originally offensive, and not at all harsh, but written in a style different from what today's multiculturalized kids are used to) which requires a little explaining. But Bomba is a plucky kid whose best friends are animals, who is courageous and enterprising. These books are still superb; the prose is vivid and the action fast-paced.
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