Time Rider Wildertrek

by Jack King

Overview

TJ's an ordinary fourteen year old kid with extraordinary problems at home and school. Broken family from his parents' bitter divorce, evil bullies attacking him almost every afternoon, failing grades when he's really a smart kid, boring classes, snobby girls, mean teachers, being cut from basketball tryouts, and few friends. Yes, life is rough for TJ Cockrell.

Then a mysterious green book inexplicably throws TJ into the past. And not just any past, but the untamed forbidding forests of 1802 eastern Tennessee, with savage Indians, wild beasts, bloodthirsty robbers, backwoods ruffians, strange characters galore, and rugged log cabin living. Yup, it's definitely not present day Knoxville Tennessee anymore.

TJ thought his present life was bad news, but his adventures have just begun. Along the way, he fights off killer beasts, bandits and braves, meets the cocky teen-aged David Crockett, gains a world of assurance in himself, finds his first real love, and is befriended by a fantastic frontier family who really has it together.

TJ returns to the present a changed young man; emboldened, forthright, and shrewd. He'll need all of his new-found strengths, though, to set things right in his messed up real world!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780997347104
Publisher:	Pba
Publication date:	05/02/2016
Series:	Time Rider , #1
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.77(d)
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Born in Tennessee to a military family, Jack King crisscrossed the country multiple times growing up. After obtaining graduate degrees in business and history, he began a successful career in sales and marketing working for Fortune 500, mid-sized, and start-up firms along the way. Mr. King is the author of of two historical adventure series; one for 18+ readers, and one for middle school & young adults.

Table of Contents

One: Another Bad Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Two: The Professor's Son . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Three: A Long Kept Secret. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
Four: On the Trail to Holston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Five: The Sloppy Bucket. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74
Six: Young Davy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86
Seven: The Hansen Gang. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Eight: The Family Robertson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122
Nine: After Dinner Tales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137
Ten: Savage Attack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151
Eleven: Cherokee Jim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173
Twelve: Recovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .190
Thirteen: Circuit Rider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .202
Fourteen: A House-Raising. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .214
Fifteen: First Kiss. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .234
Sixteen: Intruders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .249
Seventeen: Back Again. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .259
Eighteen: Highland Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .278
Nineteen: The Little Green Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .296
Twenty: The Past as Present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .308
Twenty-One: Just the Beginning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .318