TJ and the Time Stumblers
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TJ Finkelstein wants to fit in at Malibu Junior High, but actions of Tuna and Herby, twenty-third century observers stuck in the present, bring her to the attention of popular Hesper, and that could jeopardize TJ's future.
In an effort to find the last ingredient for the fuel that will take them back to their own time, twenty-third-century time travelers Tuna and Herby transport themselves to Africa--along with half of TJ's seventh-grade class.
After she accidentally makes an enemy of superstar Hesper Breakahart on her first day at Malibu Junior High, thirteen-year-old TJ's troubles multiply when two twenty-third century students, who have traveled back in time to observe her for a history project, decide to help her.
Twenty-third-century time travelers Tuna and Herby's fumbled attempt to repair their futuristic gadgets land TJ, the only person who can see them, in the body of her nemesis, television star Hester Breakahart.
In training to become a future world leader, Malibu Junior High School student TJ continues her mishaps with her "helpers" from the twenty-third century, who have provided her with a Thought Broadcaster Pen that forces her to try to stop returning meanness to those who are mean to her.
TJ Finkelstein races against the clock and her sister Violet to give their father a great Christmas, but Tuna and Herby, TJ's twenty-third century "helpers," contribute to a series of disasters that almost cause her to forget the holiday's true meaning.