Books 5–7 are another multi-part story, in which many members of Jim Hawkins' now-large family visit the land of Israel in late first-century Biblical times.

The 3rd and 4th books are written in dual person, about half in Jim's point of view and the rest in Melody's point of view. These are also the first books in the series to be written in somebody besides Jim's point of view. They are caught in the maelstrom of the Savior's death, while in the Americas and are there to witness Jesus Christ's coming to the people of the Americas after his resurrection.

Books 3 and 4 are two parts of the same story, when Jim Hawkins’ 16-year-old daughter, Melody, is kidnapped and Jim takes his other two children, Steffanie and Harry, with him to early first-century Book of Mormon times to rescue her.

It ends with Jim destroying it, in modern times.

In book 2 ( Gadiantons and the Silver Sword), a few inhabitants of Book of Mormon times travel to the present day in search of an evil sword, the Sword of Coriantimur, an infamous sword that continuously pops up in the lives of the family, throughout many of the books.

In book 1, Jim, his friend, Garth, and his younger sister, Jennifer, discover a time passage and spend two months in the time of the Nephites, at the time of Helaman and Captain Teancum around 67 B.C.

The first four books feature Jim Hawkins as the main character: first as a teenager, then as a young man in college, and in the third and fourth as a father of three children. They feature both Book of Mormon and Bible themes. The novels involve people from modern times being transported to the past (at various times and locations described in the Standard Works) by means of a cave in Wyoming called 'Frost Cave' (a real cave on the Spirit Mountain in Cody, Wyoming) in the United States.

The main characters of the series are Jim Hawkins, his sister Jenny Hawkins and Garth Plimpton, and later, their family members and friends. The Sacred Quest (formerly Tennis Shoes and the Seven Churches) (1997).There are thirteen books in the series so far, with the fourteenth anticipated to be released in the near future: They are most widely read by young adult members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Tennis Shoes Adventure Series is a series of LDS fiction novels written by Chris Heimerdinger.

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