Heaven is for real by Todd Burpo is placed solely in a small town named Imperial in Nebraska. The story takes place in 2003-2005. One of the main characters in this book is Colton Burpo. He is a cantankerous three year old with his whole life ahead of him. Until him and his family were on a trip to Greeley, Colorado for a pastors conference because Colton’s father is a pastor. Colton had been having some stomach aches, but nothing too serious until one night after the Burpo’s went out to eat with another pastor and his wife, that both Colton and his older sister Cassie started throwing up about once an hour. The next morning Cassie was feeling fine, but Colton was still feeling horrible so they went and stayed at a family friend’s house so they could look after Colton and Cassie while Todd and Sonja, Colton and Cassie’s parents, were at the pastor’s conference. When they get home they decide that they should take Colton to the hospital so they get there and the doctor runs tests and Colton’s condition doesn’t get any better . The Burpo’s decide to take him to another hospital and they find that Colton’s appendix had burst and that there was an abscess. They take him into surgery to remove his appendix and clean out the abscess. The surgery goes fine but the doctors don’t give them any consolation because they are almost for certain Colton will die. Yet Colton does not die, and everything goes back to normal, well at least as normal as you can get when just a few weeks ago
