A group of boys is lured into a sewer by their classmate where mind tricks and riddles await them in the damp darkness.

At a mundane dinner party, adults dance the night away while two ten-year-olds hide and explore their bodies together.

A young boy grows up avoiding his abusive mother and idolizing two men in his life: his father and a boy in his class. But when both of his heroes betray him, he turns to his mother for comfort.

Bullies take a young boy's shoes away from him after he has already lost his feet in a farming accident.

Two boys become friends after one of them displays unflinching honesty in the face of a tyrannical teacher. Ultimately, their friendship is destroyed when the same honesty robs the second boy of some of his childhood ignorance.

When a thirteen-year-old boy sheds his goody two shoes reputation for a day and skips school to explore Manchester with his friend, he doesn't expect to find himself in an underground cave system full of monsters, fighting to survive.

A four-year-old Southern boy can read novels but has never spoken a word in his life. When he goes to his family's Fourth of July picnic, he must decide whether it is the appropriate moment to speak—or if there ever will be one.

When two sisters and their best friend befriend the new boys in their rural town, the girls' thoughts shift from make-believe to the realties of puberty.

Four teenage boys escape the Brooklyn summertime heat at their local swimming pool. After their swim, the boys are ravenous, and they imagine all the foods they'd like to eat.

A little girl navigates her relationships with two boys in her elementary school class, a brash bully and a shy victim, and learns about the nature of suffering.