Archer's Quest by Linda Sue Park

Do you like books that take you to another time in history? Well, you’re gonna love this one then! In Archer’s Quest, a boy named Kevin hears a THWOCK noise and turns to see an arrow in the wall above his desk. The arrow had pierced his baseball cap, lifted it off his head and pinned it to the wall! How did that guy with a bow and arrows get into the room? “I lost my balance, fell off the tiger and landed here,” the man says. He really should have brought a dog along but I guess maybe dogs and tigers wouldn’t be very good travel companions. Anyway Kevin discovers that the man time-traveled from a centuries-old Korean kingdom. He knows nothing about modern day stuff—like glass (he tries to shoot an arrow through the window at a birdhouse), lights (he thought Kevin was trying to blind him), computers (Kevin tells him it’s a magic box with which he can talk to people who aren’t there), and lots of other stuff. Kevin tries to find a way to send him home to his century—before history is changed forever. You’ll want to read Archer’s Quest to find out if Kevin is successful. This is an exciting book and it would make a GREAT movie. I think I could star as the tiger; do they make tiger costumes for dogs? I give this book a 4 1/2 bone rating since it was a "can't put it down" one.

By the way, Linda Sue Park is also the author for Project Mulberry which is the book Mr. Boyer's reading group read in 07-08 after which they hatched some silkworms.