Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites Author:Chris Heimerdinger These modern people: Jim, his sister, Jen and their friend Garth are living in Cody, Wyoming. They discover a magical passageway that takes them back to around 70 BC during the time when the Lamanites and Nephites (a people that came to the Americas from Jerusalem around 600 AD, as the LDS, or Mormon, people affirm) are in constant battle agains... more »t each other. These three young people, about twelve years-old, learn about the Nephites and Lamanites and experience many obstacles they must overcome, one such being they must find their way home in a time of great war.
The world they are in is based upon the current written record (The Book of Mormon, or BOM), but has been expounded upon by Chris Heimerdinger, to make this novel into a Historical fiction due to its limited bases upon the contemporary record.« less