Tennis Shoes Adventure Series

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)
#Likely to be called "Thorns of Glory" (2009) Title and release date not set in stone.

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. [http://passagetozarahemla.blogspot.com/]

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.

References

*Citation
last=Heimerdinger
first=Chris
title=Tennis Shoes among the Nephites
publisher=Covenant Communications, Incorporated
place=American Fork, Utah
year=1989
isbn=9781577344674 .

External links

* [http://www.i-reports.info/b/B199302.html interrogation report review of the book]