A teenage boy saves a grown man from drowning and must overcome his resulting fear of water to rescue his best friends during a heavy flood in rural Arkansas.
Terri has lived with Grandmother Ollie since her mother passed away in childbirth, and her grandmother's sixth sense has always been correct, so when Grandmother Ollie suspects something is not right in Terri's life, she sets out to help her granddaughter choose the right path.
Sixteen-year-old Megan Berry learns the secret of why she is such a powerful Settler, gets help from a new friend in battling a siege from a zombie army, and tries to reach second base with her boyfriend, Ethan.
When her father is sent to jail and she gets shipped off to live with her aunt in a farming community in Arkansas, glam teen and L.A. native West Deschanel turns to the only hot boy in town for help in planning her escape from Nowheresville.
Young Maya leads a precarious existence in racist, Depression-era Arkansas, where she is shunted between her grandmother's house and her mother's--where she is raped--and withdraws into total silence. She endures to share her realization in her valedictory address: "In order to lift your voice, you have to lift your head.".
