num_pages: 304
description: When is a game not a game?Tyler MacCandless cant focus even when he takes his medication. He cant focus on school on his future on a book on much of anything other than taking care of his older brother Brandon whos in rehab for heroin abuse again.Tylers dad is dead and his mom has mentally checked out. The only person he can really count on is his Civilian Air Patrol Mentor Rick. The one thing in life it seems he doesnt suck at is playing video games and well thats probably not going to get him into college.Just when it seems like his future is on a collision course with a life sentence at McDonalds Rick asks him to test a video game. If his scores high enough it could earn him a place in flight school and win him the future he was certain that he could never have. And when he falls in love with the games designer the legendary gamer Ani Tyler thinks his life might finally be turning around.That is until Brandon goes MIA from rehab and Tyler and Ani discover that the game is more than it seems. Now Tyler will have to figure out whats really going on in time to save his brother and prevent his own future from going down in flames.
language: English
title: Playing Tyler
publisher: Strange Chemistry