Charley é um menino de 15 anos que vive com o pai solteiro em Portland, Oregon. Na procura pela tia desaparecida há muitos anos, Charley consegue um emprego de verão como treinador de cavalos e acaba fazendo amizade com um cavalo de corrida chamado Lean on Pete.
Durante o tumultuado período dos anos 1960, duas famílias americanas se encontram em situações distintas. Os Herlihy têm um filho no Vietnã. Enquanto isso, o filho da família Taylor se une ao Partido dos Panteras Negras.
The frozen body of a prehistoric, but super-advanced, human leads scientists to start covert DNA experiments for the development of a new race of super beings.
Simon is an intelligent and privileged young man whose family expects him to become a Princeton graduate. Crying out for attention from his reserved and cool hearted family, Simon commits numerous petty crimes and is soon sent away to boarding school where he befriends a "Deadhead," adopts the "hippie" lifestyle and dabbles in many drugs in his search for acceptance.
A young man moves to a new town after experiencing a tragedy and becomes involved with a gang of Satan-worshipping teens who believe they have supernatural powers. But by the time he realises he’s in too deep, it may be too late to escape.
