Hello There, Do You Still Know Me?

In this sequel to the popular kids novel, Hello There, We’ve Been Waiting For You!, now 12-year old orphan Madison McGee is joined by her best friends Violet and Noah. This intrepid trio imagines a perfect end-of-the-summer vacation. They’re staying with Madison’s old neighbor Rosalie Claire and her new husband Thomas, in their sunny yellow inn on the Costa Rican shore. The kids plan to spend two whole weeks bicycling through the quaint tourist town of Jacó, playing fetch on the beach with Madison’s dog Leroy, and best of all, learning how to surf. But it all comes to a screeching halt when Madison’s wacky grandmother, Florida Brown, unexpectedly shows up on the inn’s doorstep, crashing the kids’ summer vacation.

Unfortunately, this is no ordinary visit. Dangerously ill with a mysterious disease that the doctors can’t identify, Florida badly needs help. When Rosalie Claire can’t find a remedy in her magical fanny pack the way she usually does, it becomes clear that the magic has stopped working. Only one person knows how to revive it ? Grandma Daisy. The only problem? She’s been dead for five years.

The winds begin to shift when Madison and her friends discover an old videotape featuring Grandma Daisy. Once again, mysterious Mike shows up with the MegaPix 6000. The kids hook up the video to the magic TV, and teleport to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, 21 years into the past. It’s a dizzying adventure as they track down the antidote for the missing magic. Things become even more complicated when Madison meets the one person she’s longed to see every single day for the last year and a half. The one person she can’t reveal her identity to or she might ruin everything - her mother, Angela Brown, who in the past is still a kid, about to graduate from the 8th grade. It’s Madison’s last chance to say her final goodbye to her mom before she returns with the magical cure that will save her grandmother.

Laurie B. Arnold has two grown-up sons and lives on Bainbridge Island with her amazing husband, a perfect fuzzy dog, and a psychotic cat. She’s written and designed countless children’s interactive games, a trio of picture books, and scripts for animated kids’ TV shows, including Dragon Tales. Her first novel, Hello There, We’ve Been Waiting for You! - the first in the Hello There trilogy ? was a finalist in the ForeWord Reviews 2013 Book of the Year Awards for Juvenile Fiction and was a New Mexico Battle of the Books pick for 2015-2016.