Note: This 2018 novel is the original story that inspired the Audie Award-winning audio drama and the new scriptbook edition of The Real Education of TJ Crowley: Coming of Age on the Redline. If you are looking for the scriptbook to read along with the audio drama, please order the Coming of Age on the Redline edition.NOW AN AUDIE AWARD-WINNING AUDIO DRAMAAdapted by the a...

“Girls who play sports and the coaches and families who support them will thoroughly enjoy this warm, uplifting story!” —Christine Brennan, USA TODAY columnist and author of On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women’s SportsWhen Maggie Steele loses her older brother, the future seems to close in around her. Life on her family’s Kansas farm keeps moving, but Maggie feels stuck in grief, pressure, and self-doubt—until she discovers an unlikely way forwa...

"Girls who play sports and the coaches and families who support them will thoroughly enjoy this warm, uplifting story!"- Christine Brennan, USA TODAY Columnist, and Author of On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's SportsWhen Maggie Steele loses her older brother, the future seems to close in around her. Life on her family's Kansas farm keeps moving, but Maggie feels stuck in grief, pressure, and self-doubt until she discovers an u...

2025 Audie Award Winner - Best Young Adult AudiobookAudioFile Earphones Award | IPPY AwardWichita, summer 1968. The city’s redline still runs down the middle of TJ Crowley’s street. His father is gone. His brother is in Vietnam. His mother is unraveling. Then the Washingtons—a Black family with a daughter his age—move in next door.TJ is thirteen, with a temper he can’t control and a man from his mother’s past who orders him to help build the fence between the two ya...