Eleven-year-old Riley Liston tries to fit in at Camp Olympia, a summer sports camp where he is one of the youngest boys.

Stuck in a small town where no one ever leaves and relegated by his wrestling coach to sit on the bench while his best friend becomes state champion, Ben decides he can't let his last high school wrestling season slip by without challenging his friend and the future.

Two friends, Calvin Tate and Zero Rollison, look forward to a season of soccer with the YMCA summer league.

When sixth-grader Manny Ramos, one of the fastest runners on the youth football team, joins the new track club, he hopes that his light weight will be a benefit in racing against more experienced guys.

Max is not keen about staying at his Aunt Ida's house, and when the ghost of her long-dead son, Woe, begins to torment him he decides to take his chances on the nearby mountain, even though it is night--but the ghost pursues him, and how the adventure ends is up to the reader to choose.

When Stu gets lost in the woods just as night closes in, he know he should just sit still and wait for morning because there is a flooded quarry nearby--but when he hears a boy calling for help he follows the sound, ignoring the dog that is trying to steer him in the opposite direction.

Eleven episodes in the life of a young man, from sneaking into his tenth football game in a row with his best friend in sixth grade to running his last high school race, the Pennsylvania state championships.

Stu and his friend Dan are hiking in the forest when a rainstorm leads them to seek shelter in a haunted hunting cabin, which suddenly bursts into flames in the middle of the night--the boys escape with their lives, but when Stu returns in the day he finds the cabin apparently untouched by fire, but in the possession of a ghost that clearly does not want company.

Seventh-grader Torry is feeling pressure on the basketball court because he has to guard a player on the rival team who is bigger and older than he is.

Feeling abandoned by his parents, who have gone their separate ways and left him behind in a small Pennsylvania town, seventeen-year-old Jay finds hope for the future in a church-sponsored basketball team and a female friend.