“I think your mother just kept reminding herself that each of us is God’s creation. And no matter how mean people may be, we all need to be loved.”
The crazy antics of seventh-grader TJ Finkelstein and her 23rd-century time travelers, Herby and Tuna, continue in this third installment.
The book opens with a giant elephant, which just happens to speak with a British accent, chasing TJ and her invisible “friends” through the school. As always, major mayhem breaks loose and TJ, once again, is looked at as the weird New Kid.
As the crazy menagerie races into the auditorium, TV sensation and fellow student, Hesper Breakahart, is holding auditions for a role on her show, which will eventually affect TJ in a big way.
TJ still has a major crush on Hesper’s “boyfriend,” Chad Steel, who just happens to think TJ is strange, but cute. Chad defends TJ to bulking ninth-grader Trent Tauntalot, which leads to problems too.
Once again, TJ must learn a lesson – this time that we shouldn’t bad mouth people, but see the good in them and speak and think well of them. God loves us all. This is a terribly hard lesson for her to learn as most of the school seems to hate her. But her father reminds her that her deceased mom really tried to see the best in people.
I didn’t like this book as well as the first two in the TJ & the Time Stumblers series by Bill Myers, but it was still a really good read.
Four stars out of five.
The crazy antics of seventh-grader TJ Finkelstein and her 23rd-century time travelers, Herby and Tuna, continue in this third installment.
The book opens with a giant elephant, which just happens to speak with a British accent, chasing TJ and her invisible “friends” through the school. As always, major mayhem breaks loose and TJ, once again, is looked at as the weird New Kid.
As the crazy menagerie races into the auditorium, TV sensation and fellow student, Hesper Breakahart, is holding auditions for a role on her show, which will eventually affect TJ in a big way.
TJ still has a major crush on Hesper’s “boyfriend,” Chad Steel, who just happens to think TJ is strange, but cute. Chad defends TJ to bulking ninth-grader Trent Tauntalot, which leads to problems too.
Once again, TJ must learn a lesson – this time that we shouldn’t bad mouth people, but see the good in them and speak and think well of them. God loves us all. This is a terribly hard lesson for her to learn as most of the school seems to hate her. But her father reminds her that her deceased mom really tried to see the best in people.
I didn’t like this book as well as the first two in the TJ & the Time Stumblers series by Bill Myers, but it was still a really good read.
Four stars out of five.