Problems arise when Martha, the family dog, learns to speak after eating alphabet soup.

A young pig uses her ability to read to outwit a wolf that intends to eat her.

Matthew and his parents go camping in the woods, and Matthew seeks to reassure his toy rabbit about the things that worry him.

Seventeen-year-old Pancho is bent on avenging the senseless death of his sister, but after he meets D.Q, who is dying of cancer, and Marisol, one of D.Q.'s caregivers, both boys find their lives changed by their interactions.

"A young white girl rides the bus with her father to the March on Washington in 1963--at which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., would give his "I Have a Dream" speech. She comes to see that Dr. King's dream belongs not just to Blacks but to all Americans"--Provided by publisher.

Formed in the mid 1990s, the Vermont-based jam-band Dispatch earned a rabid cult following with their improvisational brand of folk-rock, funk, and reggae. When they broke up in 2004, the band's three members Chad Stokes Urmston, Braddigan (Brad Corrigan), and Pete Francis decided to go out with a bang with a free concert held at Boston's Hatch Shell, a massive, 100,000 person affair captured here in intimate documentary form by director Helmut Schleppi...

Gustave doesn't want to move from the exciting city to the boring countriside, far from his cousin Jean-Paul and his best friend Marcel. But he has no choice. It is March of 1940 and Paris is not a safe place for Jews. When Paris is captured by the Nazis, Gustave knows that Marcel, Jean-Paul, and their families must make it out of the occupied zone. And when he learns that his new friend Nicole works for the French Resistance, he comes up with...

Martha watches as the new dog her family brings home grows through all the troublesome phases of being a puppy, and even though he does not develop Martha's ability to speak, Skits displays his own unique talent.

When she wins a call-in radio contest, Martha the talking dog and her family go for a vacation and manage to change the "no dogs allowed" policy.