Clara Barnstone

Urban legend has it that a Nevada reservoir is a time portal--the tease of which is enough to keep life exciting for the Crop, an aimless but spirited group of teenage best friends living in the nearby city of Sparks--enough, that is, until Cleo moves to town hell-bent on reaching 1960s Paris.

A family gathers on Christmas Eve for what could be the last holiday in their ancestral home. As the night wears on and tensions arise, one of the teenagers sneaks out with her friends to claim the wintry suburb for her own.

Two girls from Austin are driven by one's brother to New Orleans, and make a movie along the way.

A young and idealistic single mother collects recyclable bottles from the streets of New York City to stay afloat, as she tries to wrangle her 2-year-old daughter and 90-year-old dog.

It's the big day of the oral presentations in Sam's fourth grade social studies class, and he has five minutes to come up with something to say.