Bøker av Tia Austin

When Jesse is born, his older brother Cal is six years old. From the very beginning, Cal knows that he will be a good brother to Jesse, that he will look out for him.Cal also hopes that maybe having Jesse around will keep his parents from arguing--loudly--so often. But things don''t change for the better, and Cal''s feelings of needing to be there for Jesse to look after him grow stronger. This is especially true when they are left alone in the apartment, their mother expecting Cal, age 9, to look after Jesse, who is only three years old.But Cal is determined to be the good brother he was told we would be when Jesse was born. Cal tries to do his best all through Jesse''s growing up years. When Cal becomes a Christian as a teenager, he tries his best to share his faith with Jesse, but he wants nothing to do with it.The boys'' lives begin to go in separate directions as they deal with their feelings of emotional pain and abuse. Cal chooses a healthy life while Jesse follows a path that leads him farther and farther downhill--and farther emotionally from Cal, who he had looked up to his entire life.Where will the separate paths lead Cal and Jesse? Walk with them as they travel the roads they have chosen to walk.

Fifteen-year-old Lane is fed up with his boring and predictable life. Also, the pressure from his parents to always be the best has him frustrated, to say the least.Danny is a shy freshman who loves to stay at home and listen to music or play board games with his younger sister. He hates going to school - and not just because some of his classes are boring - but because his stuttering has made him the target of the school bullies.Halsey wishes her mom was still there - that she hadn't passed away. Now she has no choice but to live with her dad. Her parents were divorced when she was young, and she's hardly seen her father for the past twelve years. Needless to say, they don't have much of a relationship. Her dad seems to ignore her most of the time. Halsey tries anything she can think of to get him to pay attention to her. She dyes blue streaks in her hair. She gets extra piercings. But her dad doesn't get upset about it. He just seems to accept it and goes back out to the garage to work on his old clunker of a truck.One day, Lane has an idea. He finds an interesting-looking fantasy book at the school library and, wanting some adventure, convinces his best friends Danny and Halsey to sneak out at night to the nearby woods to read it. But when Lane begins to read, the three of them get more than they bargained for.