God's Helicopter is a young-adult novel by the American writer Lee Gutkind.

God's Helicopter
First edition
AuthorLee Gutkind
Cover artistFrederick H. Carlson
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherSlow Loris Press
Publication date
1983
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages175 pp
ISBN0-9183-6626-7
OCLC9081472
813/.54 19
LC ClassPS3557.U88 G6 1983

It is set in 1950s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when Dwight Eisenhower was president, Ralph Kiner was the left fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates and the greatest man to ever live, according to the twelve-year-old Willie Heinemann, protagonist of this novel. His friend Ronald Middlebaum, however, fights a life-threatening illness and Willie seeks to understand a God who wants Middlebaum dead.[1]

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