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Fresh from a thrilling basketball season playing for the varsity team, Matt is looking forward to a new challenge: baseball.

Life is hard for ten-year-old Safiyah in the Kibera slum outside Nairobi.

Addison's mother wants to sell their comfortable old house and move into a townhouse in a new development across town - a shoe box near a shoe factory, Addison calls it.

Thirteen-year-old Declan lives only for revenge. His mother, father and sister were all killed on the streets of Belfast, and Declan will stop at nothing to settle the score.

Logan always takes the easy way out. After a night of drinking and driving, he wakes up to find he has been in a car accident and is dead.

Josh had been living in a group home after being ratted out by Scott, his one-time best friend. Now he has been sent to a class designed to teach him to deal with his anger.

It's almost summer in small town Port Ainslie. Or is it? Temperatures are so far below normal that Police Chief Maxine Benson and her team are wearing sweaters.

Remy has just been released from juvenile detention and is back in his old neighborhood. He went away because he severely assaulted a guy who insulted his girlfriend, Asia.

Vancouver city councilor George Hamilton Nash has left his wife of twenty years and moved into a posh West End condo.

Harriet has a large collection of stuffed animals.

Tej and Liam are going snowboarding. When they take a shortcut over a treacherous logging road and have an accident, their adventure becomes more about survival than fresh powder.

Cheetah is the small spotted frog Amelia brings home in a macaroni container.

It's 1861 and orphan Jo has made it from Carson City, Nevada, to San Francisco without anyone figuring out that she's a girl in boy's clothing.

Connie Suarez, downsized from her job as a legal secretary, is working as a maid. She's getting used to picking up after people and putting their lives in order.

Derek thinks he might be falling in love. The problem is, he hasn't been entirely honest with his online boyfriend. Derek sent Ethan a photo taken before he got depressed and gained eighty pounds.