American girl

When Kaya befriends a lone dog that has wandered near her camp, others in the village warn her to be careful. Dogs don't usually live by themselves, and some people think the lone dog is not to be trusted. But Kaya brings the dog food and can feel her gratefulness. After Lone Dog gives birth to pups, she lets Kaya be a part of her new family. When Kaya looks into Lone Dog's eyes, it's as if the dog is speaking to her. Kaya's grandmother tells her that if an animal speaks to her, she needs to listen.

She's always fantasized about living in the same seaside town as her twin cousins, Natalia and Zoe. But now that she's there, things aren't going quite the way she expected. The beautiful old mansion the girls' mothers are renovating isn't finished and Emma misses her dad, who's stuck in Seattle. Worse, the twins lead separate lives at school and Natalia's friedn Caitlin is giving Emma the cold shoulder.

Z's an expert a top-motion video. Now she has to make a whole new kind of movie---a documentary---and it's harder than she though. Z wants to wow the dudges, but she's not sure her ideas are good enough for a film festival. With the help of her friends, Z shoots a lot of footage, but something about it doesn't feel right. Should she start over? As she tries to make a movie she can be proud of, Z discovers that to be a real filmmaker, she'll first have to be her real self.