Left alone in the impoverished Brooklyn projects when their dug-addicted mothers are taken away b the police, a 14 year-old African American boy unwillingly becomes the care-giver of an 8 year-old Korean American boy. Dodging the police and gang members, they must survive the hot summer by their wits and pluck.
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
This is a fantasy adventure for middle school children in which Percy Jackson, based on the Greek mythological Perseus joins with his friends in search of the Golden Fleece.
The Station Agent (2003)
The agent is a lonely dwarf inherits an old train station in rural NJ and, despite himself, gains 3 friends who overcome his loneliness & benefit from him.