06-01-11 - TJ and the Time Stumblers
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- Published: Tuesday, 31 May 2011 16:16
Join TJ Finkelstein and his 2 unlikely friends as they stumble into one hilarious catastrophe after another . . . while accidentally learning the importance of such core values as love, honesty, patience, and kindness. Click here for Care's interview with Bill Myers, author of "New Kid Catastrophes", from this week's Wednesday Bookmark, brought to you by Salem Storehouse!
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TJ Finkelstein is your average seventh grader trying to survive junior high. Average except for . . .
Just moving from the Midwest to crazy, money-is-no-object Malibu, California
Becoming mortal enemies with the school's most popular girl, who stars on the Dizzy Channel
Oh yeah, and being followed around by two goofball boys from the 23rd century!!!
That's right—Herby and Tuna have traveled back in time to study TJ for a class project. Unfortunately, she is the only one who can see them. And unfortunatelier (don't try that word on your English teacher), their "help," which involves using whacked-out 23rd-century gadgets, only leads to more mayhem and plenty of side-splitting laughter.
This six-book series centers around two 23rd century goofballs, Tuna and Herby, who travel back in time to study TJ Finkelstein for their history project. TJ will someday become a great leader who demonstrates honesty, integrity, thoughtfulness, self-sacrifice, respect for others—all traits she hones and grasps through her adventures in this series. Unfortunately, Tuna and Herby get stuck in TJ's time (modern day), so she has to deal with their schemes while juggling the normal issues of a seventh grader who has moved to a new city, is trying to fit in, and is coping with her mother's death and her family's new life.
In New Kid Catastrophes, TJ accidentally makes an enemy of Hesper Breakahart, the superstar who attends their school. And Tuna and Herby's attempts to help just lead to one disaster after another. In the end, TJ is still very unpopular, but she learns the value of looking past appearances and gains a few friends—and the attention of the most popular boy in school.
