When they're hauled into the office in the wake of a stupid prank, schoolmates Elliot and Shannon have no idea that hiding the principal's Smart Car in the woods was the least of their problems. As part of their punishment, the pair is tasked to clean up the school boathouse. Should be an easy enough task, they figure: chuck all the broken stuff, organize whatever still works and get the weekend underway. But when Shannon talks Elliot into making...

When Greg discovers a family of refugees in a lifeboat off the rugged coast of Newfoundland, he risks everything to help them.

Layne wants nothing more than to follow in his father's footsteps and to be a bull rider.

His dad was one ride away from a National Championship when he got trampled to death. Layne wants to be able to give his dad that championship—by winning it for him. What he doesn't want, though, is to end up like his father and die in the rodeo arena. When the chance comes, Layne realizes he must face up to his greatest fear.

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Curt has it all: friends, summer job, a promising career in baseball; then he begins experimenting with drugs.

When a prominent local adult is killed at a teen house party, the whole school seems to know who is to blame, but no one will go to the police.

Bobbie Jo didn't set out to buy a limping blue roan mare—she wanted a colt she could train to barrel race.

But the horse is a fighter, just like Bobbie Jo. Now all she has to do is train the sour old mare that obviously has a past. While she nurses the horse back to health, Bobbie Jo realizes that the horse, now called Blue Moon, may have more history than she first thought. With the help of the enigmatic Cole, she

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When Wally is badly injured skateboarding, Phillip must decide what is more important-- skating or making things right with friends. Philip lives for skateboarding. School is merely the break between trying to land a difficult jump and outrunning the security guards. When he and his best friend Wally meet a professional skate-boarder who videotapes himself for his website, Philip thinks they can do it too-and make money at the same time. When they...

"Pete likes to play pranks. It doesn't matter what it is as long as it gets a laugh. When he impersonates his vice-principal on a radio call-in show, he goes too far and is suspended from school. Pete's parents send him to spend the summer working with his uncle, a whale-watching guide in a tourist town far from the city. When a whale is injured by a reckless tour guide, Pete struggles to save the animal. Then Pete has to pull the most important prank...

Three boys believe that they can become rock stars and thus will not need school.

Frances works the night shift at a local convenience store, dividing her time between restocking shelves and working on her art. Her routine is broken one night when Devin comes into the store. He claims to be the son of a famous local artist and offers her advice on her drawings. Although he seems to know way too much about her, Frances decides, against the advice of her boyfriend, that he is odd but harmless. By the time she realizes the danger...