A modern 13-year old boy, Zane Rasmussen, falls into a coma and wakes up on Jackson's Island in the Mississippi River where he is found by Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and freed slave, Jim.
It is June, 1849, and Zane gradually accepts that these are living characters from Twain's novels, while they finally conclude he's a traveler from a future time.

He agrees to accompany them as they prepare -for howling adventures- into Indian Territory.

Their plans are halted when Becky Thatcher is kidnapped and criminals demand a $12,000 gold ransom.

During their fast-paced adventure, Zane realizes this is a totally different and, in many ways, better world than the one he left behind.

He survives, but then has no idea how to return home.

 

This is volume 1 in Adventures in Time .

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 354 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Cengage Learning, Inc .

A native of Fargo, North Dakota, Tim Champlin grew up in Nebraska, Missouri and Arizona where he was graduated from St. Mary's High School, Phoenix, before relocating to Tennessee. After receiving a BS degree from Middle Tennessee State College, he declined a job as a Border patrol agent in order to finish work on an MA degree in English from Peabody College. Since then, 38 of his historical novels have been published, featuring frontier stories, Civil War tales, juvenile time travel, the lost Templar treasure and a clash between Annie Oakley and Jack the Ripper. He's twice been runner-up for a Spur Award from Western Writers of America. In 1994 he retired from the U. S. Civil Service. He and his wife, Ellen, have 3 children and 10 grandchildren.