An independent press in Wichita, Kansas

The full-cast audio drama of TJ Crowley won the 2025 Audie Award for Young Adult.

Press play on a scene from the original cast. TJ Crowley and Maggie Vaults Over the Moon are both taught in classrooms.

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AudioFile Earphones Award 2025 IPPY Gold Medal, Outstanding Books of the Year Kirkus Reviews
Cover of Maggie Vaults Over the Moon by Grant Overstake: a girl pole vaulting over a full moon above a Kansas farm Cover of The Real Education of TJ Crowley: Coming of Age on the Redline, a boy on a bicycle beside a red line, with the 2025 Audie Award winner seal
Cast and crew of The Real Education of TJ Crowley holding the Audie Winner plaque in front of an Audio Publishers Association backdrop at the 2025 Audie Awards
The cast and crew of The Real Education of TJ Crowley at the 2025 Audie Awards.

The books

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The Real Education of TJ Crowley

Coming of Age on the Redline. Ages 13 and up, grades 7-12. Novel, full-cast audio drama, and Scriptbook, by Grant Overstake and May Wuthrich.

Wichita, 1968, the summer after Dr. King was killed. A line runs through the city, one street from thirteen-year-old TJ Crowley's house. When the new Fair Housing law brings a Black doctor's family onto his block, TJ has to rethink what he believes about his neighbors and about his own family.

Fifteen performers voice the full-cast audio drama, directed and produced by May Wuthrich.

Contains historically accurate racially offensive language; best in guided settings.

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Maggie Vaults Over the Moon

Second Edition. Ages 10 and up, grades 5-8. No profanity or sexual content. Novel and audiobook narrated by Tavia Gilbert.

A car crash takes Maggie Steele's brother at harvest time, and the future she'd pictured closes. Life on the family's Kansas wheat farm keeps moving. Maggie doesn't, until she finds the pole vault, a sport that asks for everything she has.

"A fine YA novel about perseverance in sports and in life."Kirkus Reviews
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Listen first

Hear the drama that won the Audie.

Co-author May Wuthrich directed and produced the full-cast audio drama of The Real Education of TJ Crowley, with fifteen actors and the ARISE Ensemble. Hear a sample scene, then stream the whole drama where you already listen.

Sample scenes, original cast
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For teachers, coaches, and librarians

Built for the room you teach in.

Read-and-listen instruction, free performance cuttings, standards-aligned history, and a book that doubles as an award at the track. Classroom sets and team sets carry volume pricing.

Teach TJ Crowley

Historical background on redlining and the 1968 Fair Housing Act, standards alignment, and discussion materials for English, social studies, and humanities classrooms.

Teaching resources

The Redline Scenes

Free, timed scene cuttings from the Scriptbook, cleared for competition and classroom use at no charge. On the EdTA Thespys Approved Materials List.

Request the cuttings packet

Maggie Awards for coaches

Coaches and clubs hand out Maggie Vaults Over the Moon at meets, camps, and clinics as recognition for the best effort of the day. Quantity discounts.

Give a Maggie Award

Both titles read cleanly for Catholic classrooms. Maggie was selected for the Wichita Diocese Catholic Schools Battle of the Books. We are a member of the Association of Catholic Publishers. Catholic school materials

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For publishers

Two services. The writing stays yours.

SecondRead

A finished manuscript read for consistency and factual accuracy, returned in days as a page-cited report. It reads and reports. It never rewrites.

From $300 per manuscript. ACP member rate $200.

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BookLab

A good book that has gone quiet, repositioned so today's readers, librarians, and AI-powered search can find it again. The author's words stay theirs.

Built for Catholic and independent publishers. Quoted per title.

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About the press

At home with the stories we tell

Grain Valley Publishing is an independent press in Wichita, Kansas, founded in 2012 by Grant Overstake, a reporter at the Wichita Eagle and the Miami Herald before he wrote fiction. We publish novels that go on to be heard and performed, and our scenes are cleared for competition and classroom use at no charge.

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