Sign-In
Cart
First Position
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9781989465417
Publisher: Head in the Ground Publishing
Published: Jul 25 2026
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Fifteen-year-old Austin lives two lives: the disciplined ballet dancer everyone sees, and the kid quietly holding his family together.
Austin has given everything to his world: his dance, 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 summer no longer unfolds along the neat, deliberate steps he once choreographed for himself. His parents keep fighting, his boyfriend's patience is wearing thin, and brief moments of lost awareness 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 is Book 1 in Lori Wolf-Heffner's compelling YA contemporary series Be Right Back, which follows Austin, a gay teen navigating family conflict, disability, and his love for ballet. For readers 13-16.
Also from
Wolf-Heffner, Lori
Between Worlds 1 (large print): The Move (large print) (Large Print Edition)
Wolf-Heffner, Lori
Paperback
Between Worlds 8: A Father's Journey (large print edition) (Large Print Edition)
Wolf-Heffner, Lori
Paperback
Also in
Young Adult Fiction
The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel: (A Modern Visual Adaptation of Homer's Epic Tale of Greek Mythology for Young Adults)
Hinds, Gareth
Paperback
Piper at the Gates of Dusk: (A Young Adult Dystopian Adventure of Survival, Identity, and a Divided Future World)
Ness, Patrick
Hardcover
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner)
Alexie, Sherman
Paperback
Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories
Hart, Kate
Gansworth, Eric
Smith, Cynthia Leitich
Hardcover
Once Upon a Broken Heart Collector's Edition: [Limited Stenciled Edge Edition]
Garber, Stephanie
Hardcover