“We’re doomed!”
Guinevere cried. “We’re dead,” another sobbed. “We’re dinner,” another wept.
Genre: Adventure
Target Audience: Girls and Boys 10-14
Subjects: Being a servant, leadership
Summary: It’s just a theme park. A
field trip to a theme park. But with the help or Herbie and Tuna, this field
trip to a theme park quickly becomes a field trip to a rain forest. Even that
wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the family of gorillas that thinks Herby
is a baby gorilla, the mama gorilla that is holding the Swiss Army Knife that
can send them back to the park, Tuna being turned into an ostrich, swarming
ants, barbequed leeches, and the cannibals! Herby and Tuna are supposedly
almost ready to leave. That departure can’t come too soon for TJ!
Notes: This is the sixth and final
book in the TJ and the Time Stumblers series about TJ, a new seventh grader in
town is being visited by two teenage guys from the 23rd century.
They claim she is going to be famous someday and are doing a school report on
her. They make many attempts to help TJ with the various adventures in her
life. In this book their “help” puts TJ’s entire class in the rainforest. TJ
finally learns what being a leader is all about as she risks her life to help
save her worst enemy and with the help of the time stumblers, sees how being a
leader always means being a servant – whether serving by washing dishes or
saving a life.
Spiritual Content
Recommendation Scale: 2/5
Reviewer: J:-)mi
Matthew 20:25-28 – Jesus called
them together and said, “You know that the rulers of the
Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over
them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever
wants to become great among you must be your servant, and
whoever wants to be first must be your slave— just as
the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as
a ransom for many.”
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