Helipads in Heaven

<p><strong>Imaginative haunting and heartwarming-Shanti Hershenson's best book yet!</strong></p><p>World-renowned author Dillon Hershkop has everything she wants in life but getting there hasn't been easy. Now thirty years old she has achieved almost everything she dreamed of as a young girl: A dazzling career a devoted fan base and a picture-perfect family-but despite all of this she is also painstakingly bored.</p><p>That is why when Dillon receives the opportunity to become the test subject for a time-traveling experiment hosted by JPL's brand new Center for Experimental Science she seizes the opportunity to explore La Cañada-and the places she grew up around-without any immediate reservations. In exchange she can write a brand new memoir both about time travel and the nearly forgotten experiences that shaped her into the talented woman she is today. That is if she returns.</p><p>Dillon is soon thrown head-first as an adult spectator into the complicated world of her ten-year-old self-fondly nicknamed Goose-from her love of helicopters writing and all things Elton John to her unreceptive fourth-grade teacher Ms. Vincent her sourly judgemental classmates and the missed opportunities of a fourth-grade writer with a smothered voice.</p><p>As she observes the childhood she does not entirely remember she begins to realize that there are reasons for the holes in her memories-things she must not remember because if she does it may become impossible to stand back and watch the oil of her bottled-up trauma be poured into a fire from a distance. And if she goes against the direct orders of the laboratory the effects of tampering with a nearly unknown science may permanently disrupt the fabrics of time space and Dillon's existence.</p><p>From the teenage author of <em>You Won't Know Her Name</em> <em>Helipads in Heaven</em> is a deep and heartwarming adventure of time travel childhood ambitions and at the core a love letter to unique children and those who dare to dream.</p>