The characters also have to deal with death, parenting troubles and time travel. The following books continue with the original characters as they go to college, get married, and have kids. Thus far thirteen books have followed in the series, the first of which features three children who discover a secret cave capable of transporting its visitors back in time. His first published work was Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites (1989), based on events in the Book of Mormon. Heimerdinger is the author of the Tennis Shoes Adventure Series. Heimerdinger read the Book of Mormon at age 18, during his first semester at college, and was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Oct 10, 1981. He also began making super-8 films beginning in junior high, and showed these films to the scholarship committee of Brigham Young University in 1981, earning a full scholarship in 'Theatre and Cinematic Arts' after receiving a Sundance Institute 'Most Promising Filmmaker' award for his film Night Meeting. He began to write books at the age of 7, and continued through high school. Heimerdinger excelled in Wyoming High School competitions for three years in the categories of Humor, Oratory, and Drama.

Heimerdinger has one older brother and two younger sisters. His parents divorced when he was four years old and his mother remarried.

His father was a professor in theatre at Indiana University. Heimerdinger was born in Bloomington, Indiana.

He is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and most of his stories center on religious themes familiar to Latter-day Saints. Chris Heimerdinger (born August 26, 1963) is an American author who has written twenty novels for adults and young adults, most famously the Tennis Shoes Adventure Series.

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