![]() Mary as the only adult feels responsible for the children. ![]() Mary (a time traveler from the meridian of time), finds herself stranded in King Nimrod’s day with Rebecca and Joshua, children of Garth and Jenny who have been with the series from the beginning. They are merely a device he uses in a game of “what if.” In this case, what if people from our time period could drop in on the people and events surrounding the Tower of Babel? Heimerdinger makes no claim that the energy fields he uses to transport his characters through time really exist. The entire Tennis Shoes Adventure Series is based on the writer’s concept of time travel, an interesting device which allows people of one time period to drop in on events past or future. ![]() For those who aren’t into historical fiction the chapter notes alone are worth the price of the book. Heimerdinger continues his action-packed story of a modern-day family gifted with the opportunity to travel back in time to Book of Mormon and Biblical times, but at the end of each chapter his chapter notes tell in a straight-forward manner his research into the era and events his characters encounter in his fiction tale. This is particularly true in Tower of Thunder. ![]() ![]() There’s a great story that builds to an exciting climax in the main body of the book, but there’s a subtle and perhaps more satisfying story in the framework around the pages. Reading one of Chris Heimerdinger’s Tennis Shoes adventures is a lot like reading one of Jan Brett’s picture books. ![]()
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