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In the developed world, if you want a drink of water you just turn on a tap or open a bottle.

When a division one coach comes to their smaller school to bring the football program up to contender status, Moose and the rest of the players on the team are pumped.

Jason is on outsider. A recent immigrant from China, he lives in a close-minded town with his mother and younger brother.

Allie’s life has just taken a turn for the worse. Not only do her parents fight all the time, but now she thinks she might be pregnant.

Reg and Keely are twins. Keely loves painting and bugs. Reg loves rocks. Keely sings crazy rhymes. Reg plays softball. Shawna and Burt are their friends.

This is the turbulent and heartbreaking story of Sive, a girl of the Otherworld who must flee her world of plenty to live as a hunted beast.

Beverly is in Hawaii, helping her uncle at his dive shop, learning how to dive and trying to lose weight and get a boyfriend.

Eric and Chris are avid geocachers who stumble into a very strange search for a series of geocaches.

A roof, a door, some windows, a floor. All houses have them, but not all houses are alike.

After eight-year-old Kevin Mason's mother abandons him, he takes refuge in his fantasy of becoming Knuckles McGraw, a tough cowboy roaming the plains on his legendary horse, Burlington Northern.

Oliver has helicopter parents-they love him, but they seriously cramp his style. He decides to fill an old wooden box with souvenirs from some of his outrageous and daring exploits.

Northern Ireland. In 1999, one year after the Good Friday peace accord, sectarian violence still runs rampant in Belfast and the hatred between Protestant and Catholic runs deep.

Eleven-year-old Jake Reynolds wants to save seal pups from the talons of bald eagles, protect his little sister Sierra and confront the wolf he is sure stalks Hidalgo Island.

Jay, Kelvin and Cia are the Lunar Ticks, a dedicated band who are convinced they are on the way up.

Amateur detective and singing sensation Dinah Galloway has enough on her plate without having to worry about being pursued by a vengeful stalker.