Audiobooks by Grant Overstake

The Real Education of TJ Crowley: Coming of Age on the Redline: An Audio Drama

"2025 Audie Award Winner - Best Young Adult Audiobook AudioFile Earphones Award | IPPY Award Wichita, 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 yards. “Stay away from them or you’re grounded for life,” his mother warns. Then gospel music drifts through the fence. TJ has a choice to make. A full-cast audio drama in three acts. Fifteen actors. Twenty-four roles. Original gospel music performed by the ARISE Ensemble. Co-produced by Audie Award-winning narrators Dion Graham and Tavia Gilbert. “Performed by a gifted cast, this slice of our history stays with the listener.” —AudioFile Magazine “Easy to see why this one was the winner.” —Audible ADVISORY: Contains racist language and depictions of racial violence appropriate to its 1968 setting. Best suited for mature YA readers and adults."

Grant Overstake, May Wuthrich (Author), Ari Fliakos, Brittany Pressley, Dani Martineck, Dion Graham, Graham Halstead, John Wright, Johnny Heller, Kevin R. Free, Kirby Heyborne, Michael Crouch, Nicole Small, Peter Berkrot, Sheila Brown Kinnard, Tavia Gilbert, Thérèse Plummer, a full cast (Narrator)

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Maggie Vaults Over the Moon

"“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 Sports When 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 forward: the pole vault. What begins as a daring escape becomes something much more. As Maggie learns to trust her body, face fear, and push past the limits others place on her, the crossbar becomes more than a mark of athletic progress. It becomes the line between the life she has known and the person she is becoming. A coming-of-age sports novel for middle grade and young teen listeners, ages 10 and up. Narrates the unabridged novel; read-along compatible with the print edition. Performed by Audie Award and Emmy Award–winning narrator Tavia Gilbert “Gilbert’s splendid portrayals will thoroughly engage listeners.” —AudioFile “A fine YA novel about perseverance in sports and in life.” —Kirkus Reviews “The positive influence this book can have on young athletes is invaluable.” —Erica Fraley, US Olympian “An inspirational pick for young adult fiction collections.” —Midwest Book Review Named one of the best track-and-field novels of all time by CITIUS Mag Contains no profanity or sexual content. Honest treatment of grief, family loss, and recovery."

Grant Overstake (Author), Tavia Gilbert (Narrator)

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