The book ‘The Misadventured Summer of Tumbleweed Thompson’ is written by Glenn McCarty. ‘The Misadventured Summer of Tumbleweed Thompson’ is a thrilling middle-grade frontier adventure novel that captures the spirit of classic Americana. It is set in the summer of 1876 in Rattlesnake Junction, Colorado. Eugene Appleton, our young character, expects a sleepy summer, with his excitement limited to devouring the pulse-pounding Dead-Eye Dan adventure novels.