Mary Kate Schellhardt

A young man in a small Midwestern town struggles to care for his mentally-disabled younger brother and morbidly obese mother while attempting to pursue his own happiness.

Teenager Jesse becomes reunited with Willy two years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from an oil spill.

Two fighting teenage girls from the opposite side of the tracks are ordered by the juvenile court to swap families and learn how the other half lives.