Diego "Clutch" Rivera was the hero of his school's basketball team last year, but this season things have not started well, and Diego is losing his confidence--but with some help from his dad, and a friend who gives him a sketchbook and suggests that he draw his feelings, he starts to rediscover the fun in basketball.

Middle school grizzly cub Tucker Grizzwell has a week's worth of bad cafeteria food, pop quizzes and too much homework leading up to Jaws & Claws weekend with his father, learning to be a predator although he does not even like to eat meat, much less kill it.