Tennis Shoes Adventure Series
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The Tennis Shoes Adventure Series is a series of LDS fiction novels written by Chris Heimerdinger and most widely read by young adult members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
There are ten books in the series so far:
- Tennis Shoes among the Nephites (1989)
- Gadiantons and the Silver Sword (1991)
- Tennis Shoes and the Feathered Serpent (1995)
- Tennis Shoes and the Feathered Serpent, Part Two (1996)
- The Sacred Quest (formerly Tennis Shoes and the Seven Churches) (1997)
- The Lost Scrolls (1998)
- The Golden Crown (1999)
- Warriors of Cumorah (2001)
- Tower of Thunder (2003)
- Kingdoms and Conquerors (2005)
In an interview included in The Passage to Zarahemla DVD, Heimerdinger said that volume 11 will likely be published in 2009 and called Thorns of Glory.[1][2]
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[edit] General synopsis
The main characters of the series are Jim Hawkins and, later, his family and friends. The novels involve people from modern times being transported to the past (at various times and locations) by means of a cave in Wyoming in the United States. They feature both Book of Mormon and Bible themes.
The first four books feature Jim Hawkins as the main character: first as a teenager, then as a young man in college and finally as a father of three children. In book 1, Jim, his friend, Garth, and his younger sister, Jennifer, discover a time passage and spend two months in the time of the Nephites, at the time of Helaman around 67 B.C. In book 2, a few inhabitants of Book of Mormon times travel forward in search of an evil sword. Books 3 and 4 are two parts of the same story, when Jim Hawkins' teenage daughter, Melody, is kidnapped and Jim takes his children with him to early first-century Book of Mormon times to rescue her.
Books 5–7 are another multi-part story, in which many members of Jim Hawkins' now-large family visit the land of Israel in late first-century Biblical times. Books 8 and 10 involve fourth-century Nephite settings, and book 9, the early-Biblical time of Abraham and Noah (close to 3000 B.C.).
[edit] Characters
- One asterisk follows the names of people from Mormon scriptural records who appear in the fictional series.
- Two asterisks follow the names of characters based on other historical records.
[edit] Protagonists
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[edit] References
- ^ Passage to Zarahemla Update. Passage to Zarahemla Blog. 30 September 2008.
- ^ Million-dollar LDS film comes to Laie "Passage to Zarahemla" makes Hawaii debut. Ke Alakai - BYU-Hawaii Student News Lab. 15 Jan 2008.
- Heimerdinger, Chris (1989), Tennis Shoes among the Nephites, American Fork, Utah: Covenant Communications, Incorporated, ISBN 9781577344674.
