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 (2006)
- Title and release date unknown[1]
Heimerdinger's most recent book, Passage to Zarahemla, could be considered part of the Tennis Shoes universe, while not necessarily part of the Tennis Shoes series. It contains many of the same themes of time travel and Book of Mormon characters.
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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, he and his friend, Garth, discover the time passage and spend two months in the time of the Nephites, at the time of Helaman around 50 BC. 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.
Then the books begin to take on a new twist. Books #5-#7 are part of the same story, in which many members of Jim Hawkins' now-large family visit the land of Israel in late first-century Biblical times. Books #8-#10 also comprise a large story that seems to have not concluded yet, involving fourth-century Nephite settings in books #8 and #10, and the early-Biblical time of Abraham and Noah (close to 3000 BC) in book #9.
[edit] Characters
- One asterisk follows the names of people from 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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- Jacobah
- Tz'ikin
[edit] Antagonists
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Prince Lamanai |
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- ^ In an interview included in The Passage to Zarahemla DVD, Heimerdinger said that volume 11 will likely be called Thorns of Glory, and he hopes it will be published in 2009, though he did not give a specific time of the year.
