# The Umpteenth help ID this book thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 10, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-umpteenth-help-id-this-book-thread/609009 "2012-01-10T02:53:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-umpteenth-help-id-this-book-thread/609009/1 "2012-01-10T02:53:58Z")
Back when I was in junior high school(late 1960’s) I read a book that I don’t remember the title of, nor the names of the characters. All the characters were young men of maybe high school age, and I think(not sure) they were Boy Scouts. They traveled back in time and at one point met Teddy Roosevelt. He was there when they used mouth to mouth resuscitation to aid someone who had nearly drowned. I think Teddy said “Bully!” I read it because it was sci-fi and I read ANYTHING in our school library that had the little spaceship label on the spine. The other girls thought I was weird for reading a “boys” book. Do I have enough information so that some Doper can come through for me? I ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-umpteenth-help-id-this-book-thread/609009/2 "2012-01-10T05:36:25Z")
Try _Time Machine to the Rescue_, by Donald Keith. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-umpteenth-help-id-this-book-thread/609009/3 "2012-01-10T10:23:57Z")
Thank you! I remember liking the book, even though it wasn’t a _girls_ book, and wanted to try and find it again. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-umpteenth-help-id-this-book-thread/609009/4 "2012-01-11T16:59:02Z")
_Time Machine to the Rescue_ is a sequel to _Mutiny in the Time Machine_, by the same author. It’s also a good book, and explains who some people are in the one you read. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-umpteenth-help-id-this-book-thread/609009/5 "2012-01-12T01:25:44Z")
A friend of mine a little older than you had to get special permission and a note from her parents to check out science fiction from the New York Public Library–“boys’ books,” you know! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-umpteenth-help-id-this-book-thread/609009/6 "2012-01-12T02:00:28Z")
> [@Sam\_A.Robrin](#): > > A friend of mine a little older than you had to get special permission and a note from her parents to check out science fiction from the New York Public Library–“boys’ books,” you know! How long ago was that? I was born in 1954(just barely) and I never heard of official restrictions by gender. Social, maybe, but not library rules. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-umpteenth-help-id-this-book-thread/609009/7 "2012-01-12T03:49:28Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > Try _Time Machine to the Rescue_, by Donald Keith. The stories were published in **Boy’s Life** at the time, one of the best things about the magazine. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-umpteenth-help-id-this-book-thread/609009/8 "2012-01-12T04:34:27Z")
THAT was where I read them! Been a sucker for time travel since then. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-umpteenth-help-id-this-book-thread/609009/9 "2012-01-12T14:04:26Z")
The original stories are available at Google Books. [The wiki page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Machine_series) has links to them. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-umpteenth-help-id-this-book-thread/609009/10 "2012-01-12T18:21:26Z")
Whoa! I checked out the price of the book at [www.abebooks.com](http://www.abebooks.com) and the cheapest they had was $42.00, plus shipping and handling. I’d like to read the stories again but I can’t afford that just now.