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Time Twisters #3
Neil Armstrong and Nat Love, Space Cowboys
Using his in-depth knowledge of American history, award winning author Steve Sheinkin and illustrator Neil Swaab create exciting adventures through time with historical figures going AWOL and true fun facts about each person.
DO NOT BELIEVE THE STORY YOU’RE ABOUT TO READ.
Well, you can believe some of it. There is some real history. But also hijinks. Time travel. And famous figures setting off on adventures that definitely never happened―till now. Time is getting twisted, and it’s up to two kids to straighten things out.
The students of Ms. Maybee's class used to think history was boring, but that was before time started to get twisted! When a spaceship carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin leaves 1969―and lands in 1869 Texas―cowboy Nat Love decides to trade in his horse for a trip to the moon. Can siblings Doc and Abby untwist history and get everyone back where they belong? Houston, we have a problem!
History will never be boring again! Check out Neil Armstrong and Nat Love, Space Cowboys and don't miss the other books in the Time Twisters series, including Abraham Lincoln, Pro Wrestler and Abigail Adams, Pirate of the Caribbean !
DO NOT BELIEVE THE STORY YOU’RE ABOUT TO READ.
Well, you can believe some of it. There is some real history. But also hijinks. Time travel. And famous figures setting off on adventures that definitely never happened―till now. Time is getting twisted, and it’s up to two kids to straighten things out.
The students of Ms. Maybee's class used to think history was boring, but that was before time started to get twisted! When a spaceship carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin leaves 1969―and lands in 1869 Texas―cowboy Nat Love decides to trade in his horse for a trip to the moon. Can siblings Doc and Abby untwist history and get everyone back where they belong? Houston, we have a problem!
History will never be boring again! Check out Neil Armstrong and Nat Love, Space Cowboys and don't miss the other books in the Time Twisters series, including Abraham Lincoln, Pro Wrestler and Abigail Adams, Pirate of the Caribbean !
176 pages, Paperback
First published June 25, 2019
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Steve Sheinkin
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I was born in Brooklyn, NY, and my family lived in Mississippi and Colorado before moving back to New York and settling in the suburbs north of New York City. As a kid my favorite books were action stories and outdoor adventures: sea stories, searches for buried treasure, sharks eating people… that kind of thing. Probably my all-time favorite was a book called Mutiny on the Bounty, a novel based on the true story of a famous mutiny aboard a British ship in the late 1700s.
I went to Syracuse University and studied communications and international relations. The highlight of those years was a summer I spent in Central America, where I worked on a documentary on the streets of Nicaragua.
After college I moved to Washington, D.C., and worked for an environmental group called the National Audubon Society. Then, when my brother Ari graduated from college a few years later, we decided to move to Austin, Texas, and make movies together. We lived like paupers in a house with a hole in the floor where bugs crawled in. We wrote some screenplays, and in 1995 made our own feature film, a comedy called A More Perfect Union (filing pictured below), about four young guys who decide to secede from the Union and declare their rented house to be an independent nation. We were sure it was going to be a huge hit; actually we ended up deep in debt.
After that I moved to Brooklyn and decided to find some way to make a living as a writer. I wrote short stories, screenplays, and worked on a comic called The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey. In 2006, after literally hundreds of rejections, my first Rabbi Harvey graphic novel was finally published.
Meanwhile, I started working for an educational publishing company, just for the money. We’d hire people to write history textbooks, and they’d send in their writing, and it was my job to check facts and make little edits to clarify the text. Once in a while I was given the chance to write little pieces of textbooks, like one-page biographies or skills lessons. “Understanding Bar Graphs” was one of my early works. The editors noticed that my writing was pretty good. They started giving me less editing to do, and more writing. Gradually, I began writing chapters for textbooks, and that turned into my full-time job. All the while, I kept working on my own writing projects.
In 2008 I wrote my last textbook. I walked away, and shall never return. My first non-textbook history book was King George: What Was His Problem? – full of all the stories about the American Revolution that I was never allowed to put into textbooks. But looking back, I actually feel pretty lucky to have spent all those years writing textbooks. It forced me to write every day, which is great practice. And I collected hundreds of stories that I can’t wait to tell.
These days, I live with my wife, Rachel, and our two young kids in Saratoga Springs, New York. We’re right down the road from the Saratoga National Historical Park, the site of Benedict Arnold’s greatest – and last – victory in an American uniform. But that’s not why I moved here. Honestly.
I was born in Brooklyn, NY, and my family lived in Mississippi and Colorado before moving back to New York and settling in the suburbs north of New York City. As a kid my favorite books were action stories and outdoor adventures: sea stories, searches for buried treasure, sharks eating people… that kind of thing. Probably my all-time favorite was a book called Mutiny on the Bounty, a novel based on the true story of a famous mutiny aboard a British ship in the late 1700s.
I went to Syracuse University and studied communications and international relations. The highlight of those years was a summer I spent in Central America, where I worked on a documentary on the streets of Nicaragua.
After college I moved to Washington, D.C., and worked for an environmental group called the National Audubon Society. Then, when my brother Ari graduated from college a few years later, we decided to move to Austin, Texas, and make movies together. We lived like paupers in a house with a hole in the floor where bugs crawled in. We wrote some screenplays, and in 1995 made our own feature film, a comedy called A More Perfect Union (filing pictured below), about four young guys who decide to secede from the Union and declare their rented house to be an independent nation. We were sure it was going to be a huge hit; actually we ended up deep in debt.
After that I moved to Brooklyn and decided to find some way to make a living as a writer. I wrote short stories, screenplays, and worked on a comic called The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey. In 2006, after literally hundreds of rejections, my first Rabbi Harvey graphic novel was finally published.
Meanwhile, I started working for an educational publishing company, just for the money. We’d hire people to write history textbooks, and they’d send in their writing, and it was my job to check facts and make little edits to clarify the text. Once in a while I was given the chance to write little pieces of textbooks, like one-page biographies or skills lessons. “Understanding Bar Graphs” was one of my early works. The editors noticed that my writing was pretty good. They started giving me less editing to do, and more writing. Gradually, I began writing chapters for textbooks, and that turned into my full-time job. All the while, I kept working on my own writing projects.
In 2008 I wrote my last textbook. I walked away, and shall never return. My first non-textbook history book was King George: What Was His Problem? – full of all the stories about the American Revolution that I was never allowed to put into textbooks. But looking back, I actually feel pretty lucky to have spent all those years writing textbooks. It forced me to write every day, which is great practice. And I collected hundreds of stories that I can’t wait to tell.
These days, I live with my wife, Rachel, and our two young kids in Saratoga Springs, New York. We’re right down the road from the Saratoga National Historical Park, the site of Benedict Arnold’s greatest – and last – victory in an American uniform. But that’s not why I moved here. Honestly.
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August 18, 2021
First sentence: One summer day a spaceship appeared in the sky above Texas. A teenage cowboy named Nat Love gazed up at the craft. It looked like a giant metal spider with smoke shooting from its feet. Love rubbed his eyes, sure he was dreaming.
Premise/plot: Neil Armstrong and Nat Love Space Cowboys is the third book in the Time Twisters series by Steve Sheinkin. Ever since Abby and Doc "broke" history in the first book, things have been getting a little--more than a little, to be fair--mixed up in their history books. This latest adventure has the lunar module, Eagle, landing on a Texas ranch in 1869 instead of on the moon! Can history be fixed???
My thoughts: I enjoyed this third adventure. Abby and Doc get to visit several different times and locations. (But not the moon!) If you have young readers who enjoyed the other books in the series, I would definitely recommend. The books are silly and packed with small adventures.
September 9, 2019
Steve Sheinkin, nonfiction author extraordinaire, has a new humorous yet informative fiction series Time Twisters. Neil Armstrong and Nat Love, Space Cowboys is the third novel following siblings Doc and Abby who have discovered a time portal in the school library connecting them to Abe Lincoln. Frustrated that kids dreaded learning about history, Abe decided to mix things up, historically speaking, and suddenly text books across America are showing so many changes that history teachers are scratching their heads! This time Texan cowboy Nat Love from 1869 meets astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in 1969. The cowboy is naturally baffled by the modern technology of a space shuttle landing on the grange and Doc and Abe quickly transport themselves to try to help. It almost works out except Nat getst on the shuttle and Buzz gets left behind. The kids, Abe and Buzz race back to NASA while Buzz and Nat land on the moon. As the Columbia comes back to earth, Buzz and Nat sneakily switch places and with the help of the kids, Nat gets back to his own time. Textbooks return to normal...until the next time Abe gets restless! An “Un-twisting History” chapter at the end of the book explains what was real in the story. This is a quirky and funny read with short chapters, black and white cartooning throughout and a highly interesting take on reading a biography. This series would make for great read-alouds.
Grades 3 and up.
Grades 3 and up.
July 11, 2019
While Ms. Maybee loves history, her fourth graders tend to find it boring. But not anymore as step-siblings Doc and Abby step back in history when cowboy Nate Love, President Abe Lincoln, and the Apollo 11 astronauts cross paths in a most unlikely way. Fans of the Time Twisters series--there are four of them in print now--will enjoy this mash-up of actual events and individuals with what might have been if time had been twisted, and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had landed in Texas in 1869 rather than the moon in 1969. Reading this humorous revisionist history might spark an interest in learning more about what actually did happen. There are black and white illustrations placed within the text. Taken along with the large font size, these images make it easy for youngsters to race through the book. I'd suggest handing this one to your reluctant readers or using it as a supplement in a history or science class. There is just enough truth in its contents to make readers think about what have happened if certain events had aligned. And having good old Honest Abe wandering around the book's pages makes for interesting interactions.
February 27, 2025
Fun and enlightening, Sheinkin weaves the history with the scifi (as a time travel story) because he feels like it and wants to share a love of history and a curiosity of anything.
In this instance, he uses the moon landing as an opportunity for the astronauts to touch down in Texas a full century before and run into some cowboys rather than the moon. There's a conversation about what Armstrong was supposed to say versus what he actually did, and the race into space and on the moon.
It's an entertaining mini story that mashes up or time twists- the creativity here can be an activity all on it's own with a kid taking an event and twisting it like Sheinkin has done.
In this instance, he uses the moon landing as an opportunity for the astronauts to touch down in Texas a full century before and run into some cowboys rather than the moon. There's a conversation about what Armstrong was supposed to say versus what he actually did, and the race into space and on the moon.
It's an entertaining mini story that mashes up or time twists- the creativity here can be an activity all on it's own with a kid taking an event and twisting it like Sheinkin has done.
December 28, 2024
I’ll admit using the category sci-fi for this is stretching the category to ridiculous extremes. On the other hand, ‘ridiculous extremes’ describes this series perfectly. Possibly kids enjoy this but I sure don’t. Of course, kids, not I, are the target audience. This time Sheinkin decides to mix up Nat Love and Neil Armstrong. Can our heroes, Doc and Abby untangle a mixup taking place on the moon and deceive the president?
This is my last one in this series. Life is too short for series you don’t enjoy. I stand by my assertion than Sheinkin should stick to nonfiction, not fiction!
This is my last one in this series. Life is too short for series you don’t enjoy. I stand by my assertion than Sheinkin should stick to nonfiction, not fiction!
August 31, 2019
Brother and sister Doc and Abby travel through time to fix history snafus. Appealing cover art, a bit goony interior art, easy chapter book format with speech bubbles integrated into the text. Back matter explains the actual events that are the inspiration for the story. Might want to go back and read there first one where Abe Lincoln is a wrestler as he appears in the one. Sheinkin’s NF is excellent, this is pretty good for the young MG reader.
March 1, 2022
Would recommend to young, reluctant readers. Hopefully will get them interested in history or adventure stories. Feels a little young, listened to the audio version so I’m unsure how well the illustrations are.
September 30, 2019
This is Sheinken's apology for the years he spent writing dull textbooks. Seriously. Ends with 10 quick pages to sort out the cross-over history. Hopefully sparks readers' interest.
November 8, 2019
I think these are clever and I love the audio version, but the illustrations aren’t great. Also this book, more than the others, had a lot of back and forth that made it confusing.
February 25, 2020
Good Book
February 29, 2020
Tricking kids into learning some history, love it!
February 26, 2022
Fun for the age, although a little young for my personal tastes--see http://www.eatreadandbemommy.com/2022... for details!
October 23, 2023
Learned a few interesting tidbits and fun facts from this one!
August 25, 2022
Really great middle grade series. The illustrations go with the text really well, and the author included the historical facts he used to help him write the book. This read was funny and engaging. #greatspaceread number 11!
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