JumpMan Rule #2: Don't Even Think About It - Hardcover

James Valentine lives and works in Australia. A journalist, broadcaster and musician, James started his life in the public eye working in theatre orchestra, big bands, R&B and cover bands. He achieved 'rock stardom' with his band, The Models, recording two platinum albums and two number one singles. He has also contributed to many magazines including Vogue and Rolling Stone. In 1987 James became the host of a popular TV show, The Afternoon Show. He currently presents a weekday radio afternoon talk show and also hosts and produces a weekly TV show.

Grade 5-8–Jules and Gens time-travel adventures continue in this second installment in the trilogy. In case you didnt know, a JumpMan is a gizmo that will be released in the 15th billennium. It enables users to visit selected pivotal moments in history and, while the kids of the future love it for its ability to dial up time-twisting trips, two present-day teens arent so sure they dig it. Thats been the case since Genevieve was first surprised in her bedroom by the materialization of Theo, a cool, celebrity time-jumping kid from the future. Since then, she and Jules have been madly moving back and forth through time with him in an evolving plot to save the world, and all this slicing and dicing of the time-space continuum has totally interrupted their budding romance. In this episode, which better readers should be able to jump right into without having read the former, Franklin, the eccentric inventor of the technology behind the JumpMan, is convinced that his codeveloper, Quincy, is bent on using the device to tamper with history and further his own selfish interests. Thats a no-no that violates JumpMan rule #1: Dont touch anything! The action in this lighthearted sci-fi adventure includes the reintroduction of pizza to the people of the future and a frantic race against and around the clock as Gen gets stranded in Pompeii just as Vesuvius is about to blow its top. An inventive temporal romp that will leave readers waiting for the conclusion.–Jeffrey Hastings, Highlander Way Middle School, Howell, MI
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