Be Right Back 1 - First Position

Fifteen-year-old Austin lives two lives: the talented, disciplined ballet dancer everyone sees, and the kid quietly trying to hold his family together. Austin has moved across the country so he can give everything to ballet: his time, his heart, his trust. When a serious accident onstage raises questions no one can answer, Austin travels back to his hometown, hoping a summer with his grandparents will clear his head. No matter how hard he tries, his life is no longer unfolding along the neat, deliberate steps he once choreographed for himself. His parents keep fighting, his boyfriend’s support is wavering, and brief moments of “spacing out” raise more questions than answers. Austin clings to the hope that he can carry it all alone. He always has. But the truth, it turns out, is far more serious than Austin, his friends, or his parents ever imagined. First Position, Book 1 in Lori Wolf-Heffner's compelling YA series Be Right Back, follows Austin, a gay teen navigating family conflict, disability, and his love for ballet. Especially for readers 13–16. Lori Wolf-Heffner never learned how to drive a car, but when she was nineteen, she competed as a member of the first Canadian National Tap Team. She lives with epilepsy. It has interrupted several dreams but not her dream to write.