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36th out of 111 books
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256 voters
The Lost Scrolls (Tennis Shoes #6)
Harry and Meagan face the awesome challenges of courage and survival in the hostile world of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.
Paperback, 279 pages
Published
November 3rd 1999
by Covenant Communications
(first published 1998)
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I find that Heimerdinger’s formula is starting to tire me. A significant number of the decisions that the characters make seem to have no other reason than to place them in the best position to observe some recorded historical event or meet some famous person.
Meagan now sounds exactly like Melody did in the previous books. She even says things like “the good part… that is the part about me,” which is annoying and totally out of character for the mouthy, rebellious, Goth girl of the previous book...more
Meagan now sounds exactly like Melody did in the previous books. She even says things like “the good part… that is the part about me,” which is annoying and totally out of character for the mouthy, rebellious, Goth girl of the previous book...more
This book picks up where "Tennis Soes and the Seven Churches" leaves off. Harry and Megan are stuck in Jerusalem during the Roman seige in 70 AD. Megan and the boy, Jesse, have been kidnapped by the crazy Simon Maggus, and Harry must recover a precious scroll to exchange for their lives. Luckily, Harry has Gid to help him out, but it still a dangerous and deadly journey he must take to get the scroll, hoping that Simon will keep his part of the bargain.
I thought it was a fun and exciting way to...more
I thought it was a fun and exciting way to...more
Mar 12, 2012
05BradenG
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this book was a really good book i have read 1-5 and this one nummber 6 has to be one of my favorites. I liked this book so much because like it was so fun to read there was to different parts of people talking like one part on what megan is going thorught and another part on what harry is doing and it all lead up to harry finally finding her and her esscaping to get to that point. my favorite charactor was Gidgidonihah because he was way cool and a nephite warrior i relly liked reading about hi...more
Book goes like this, kidnap-escape-kidnap-escape-kidnap-escape etc. Not too much creativity in the plot line. The book becomes extremely predictable and you know that the characters can escape from any situation.
The book follows two story lines both written in first person. To be able to distinguish the two the font is italicized which seems a little amateur.
Harry has taken over as the main character in books five through seven. I know he is the son of Jim but Harry acts, thinks, and talks the...more
The book follows two story lines both written in first person. To be able to distinguish the two the font is italicized which seems a little amateur.
Harry has taken over as the main character in books five through seven. I know he is the son of Jim but Harry acts, thinks, and talks the...more
Jan 15, 2013
Lauren
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4 of 5 stars
Recommended to Lauren by:
Dallas
Shelves:
contemporary-fiction,
historical-fiction
AGHT. I get way too in to these books. I can't focus until I am finished, then I can't focus until I have the next one. It's not even healthy. I pretty much had a breakdown in the ten minutes between finishing this book and logging on to Goodreads to see if they do, in fact fix the space-time continuum or if they have some issues. Because that conclusion was nothing like the treat-of-death-held-for-ransom-ultimatum like the end of Sacred Quest. But it wasn't entirely fixed, either. They weren't...more
OK, let me get this straight. Harry at the age of 15 goes back in time and gets stuck in ancient Greece for three years. But only 6 months has passed in modern time. So, Harry comes back after being gone for 6 months and is suddenly three years older. This doesn’t raise any eyebrows? He than decides to go serve his mission. Hold on, even though he has aged 3 years he is still only legally 15 or 16. Shouldn’t his Bishop be a little confused? Oh, and what ever happened to high school? I guess Harr...more
This book was riveting. I got uncomfortable it was so exciting. Everything worked into place by the end of the book. It was very, very interesting. I also got a glimpse of apostasy and how it could have taken place within the early Church after Christ's death. It portrayed the fall of Jerusalem being held by the Zealot faction of the Jews and being taken by the Roman soldiers. It was a time falling into darkness. The bad guys in this were really gruesome. Another good Heimerdinger book.
2nd or 3rd time reading this (but it can't be much more than that, because I had forgotten so much). I must have got my kids to read this by themselves by time we got to this point in the story. Anyway, I still absolutely love this series. This takes place in Holy Land and Greece for much of it. Great plot and I love the characters, Harry and Meagan.
Fallow the story of harry and megan to survive in Rome, 70 A.D. But things are looking kinda grim. Megan and Jess are still in the handds of Simon Mags and his evil men. harry and gidgiddoniah must find the knowlege scrollin jerselem, a war zone, full of death and disaster, and not to make things worse they have to do it in less than 10 days and find some mountain. Megan and Jess are able to escape, and find themselfes with help of the Romen army. Along the way there is adventure around every co...more
My highest recommendation? I want the next book! This one wraps up the adventure in volumes 5 and 6, but obviously leads to the next adventure. It is amazing that I'm still sucked into this series. I tend to divorce myself away from series if only from force of will, but this one is a keeper in my opinion. Hopefully I can find someone to borrow it from although it seems a shame not to have the whole series in my own library.
These Tennishoe amoung the Nephites series are AWESOME! My dad read these books to me and my siblings when I was a kid and I loved them at a young age. I have read them when I was in highschool and now as a young mom I want to own the series and I would love to read them again. THis is a must have in your library. It makes the people that lived in the book of mormon time period real. YOu read the book of mormon with a new perspective that these people had lives, families and feelings too. I love...more
You can guess what I was reading over the break. Did a lot of reading with the kids. It's fun to read the same books they are and then be able to talk about them with the kids. I like the way Heimerdinger weaves a tale.
Another fun adventure by Chris Heimerdinger. I don't really love the addition of Meagan, though. She's just too sarcastic and snotty to be very likeable. I also didn't see what she saw in Apollos. Other than his good looks he was pretty arrogant and ruthless. The action was interesting, though, and I enjoyed the way this story portrayed how easy it is to slip into apostasy.
I gave this three stars because I don't remember which one this is exactly, but I remember enjoying it. If I read it again . . . likely . . . perhaps I'll give a more exact review.
Full of action and suspense, this book is totally awesome! There are surprises at every turn as the tennis shoes saga reaches new heights!
I remember reading this, but I can barely remember it. I must not have liked it because I stopped reading the series at this point.
Still a really fun series. The setting isn't as interesting to me as the earlier books, but the story is still really good.
Again a fun story and a simple version of history.
This book was hard to put down! I love Megan and Apollus!
i liked this one but it was still a cliffhanger
so far, I'm only about halfway through. I love this series though!! Fantastic! This is my first time reading it all the way through...hard to believe what i was missing out on! Really Good!!
Amazing and a must read too!
Once again...AMAZING!!!!
I think that so far his books are really good. however he is basically using the storyline every time.
AWESOME!
This new little saga is definitely one of his bests.
loved it!!!
Mildly entertaining. Like the other books in the series, it is really directed at a young teenager (or younger) age group. I read this and subsequent books in the series at the insistence of my daughter who was a big fan. Though I enjoyed them, I appreciated them even more because they served as a catalyst for discussing related doctrinal concepts and concerns with my daughter, and later my son.
It's really hard to rate any of these books under four stars, the endings always make me so incredibly happy. This book, all in all, would be maybe three stars. A lot of the other books are better. But the ending just made up for it all, just like the last one, and the last one before that. Even if the reunions and goodbyes are a little gushy, they're just feel-good scenes. I love Mormon books.
Picked up one of these books again to read for this class. It was really just as good as I remembered. Jim and his family are still time-travelling to ancient America. They're still learning about the Book of Mormon times. And there's still a lot of action. Not a lot of romance. My type of book. Would this be considered historical fiction, though? I really don't know.
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Chris Heimerdinger is an author and member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) who has presently written sixteen adult and young adult novels, most of which center on religious themes familiar to LDS members. Most are published with Covenant Communications in American Fork, Utah. One title, A Return to Christmas was also picked up by Random House/Ballantine in 1995. When the t...more
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Apr 07, 2011 05:13pm