Garry Chalk

One chilly night in Timberline National Forest, Elliot gathers his friends around a campfire to share a spooky tale-the legend of the Wailing Wampus Werewolf, a mysterious creature said to roam the woods. The story terrifies Boog, who becomes so scared he decides to back out of their annual camping trip until he's sure the werewolf is gone. Determined to help Boog overcome his fears, Elliot, Mr. Weenie, and the other woodland animals come up with a plan to scare the fear out of him while uncovering the truth behind the legend. Meanwhile, former hunter Shaw, now a bitter tour guide, spots a strange creature in the forest. Unbeknownst to him, the "creature" is actually Ian, a deer and Elliot's longtime rival, in a werewolf disguise. Seizing the opportunity for revenge against Boog and Elliot for defeating him years ago, Shaw petitions Sheriff Gordy to reopen hunting season. Reluctantly, the sheriff agrees but strictly limits the hunt to the alleged werewolf. Shaw, however, intends to go after Boog and Elliot as well. To aid his scheme, Shaw enlists the help of Ed and Edna, owners of the Poutine Palace. As Boog becomes increasingly upset with Elliot's antics, their friendship is strained. Boog lashes out at Elliot, causing Elliot to venture into the forest alone to prove his bravery by catching the werewolf himself. Feeling guilty, Elliot's wife Giselle tries to persuade Boog to reconcile with Elliot, warning him that Elliot is headed toward the dangerous Dead Bear Gulch. Meanwhile, a hungry and delirious Mr. Weenie begins to suspect he might actually be the werewolf. At Dead Bear Gulch, Elliot and Mr. Weenie encounter the "werewolf," which turns out to be Shaw in disguise. Just as things seem dire, Boog and the rest of their friends arrive in the nick of time to rescue them. After a chaotic showdown, the animals overpower Shaw and his accomplices, Ed and Edna. Sheriff Gordy arrives to arrest the trio and declares open season permanently closed. As a token of gratitude, Gordy rewards Boog with some well-deserved treats. Just as the group begins to relax, they discover that the Wailing Wampus Werewolf is real. However, the werewolf turns out to be friendly and is won over by Elliot, who invites him to join their comport with an impromptu dance. The next morning, Bobbie and Bob happily return to their RV with Mr. Weenie, reminding him that it's his birthday. As the animals celebrate, the werewolf playfully asks Boog to wear a female werewolf costume again, but Boog, still grumpy, firmly refuses. The forest returns to peace, and the friends laugh together, closer than ever.

Ladislao Orosco sets out a journey around the virgin Nirihuau mountain Chain. His longing to find a Huemul specimen, a native deer whose only fate appears to be that of extinction. He will not be alone, though. His loyal old friend Nazareno will remain by his side. ladislao will set out in search of his identity, if the huemul is alive, there is still hope for him. The magic of the Patagonian land will keep the expeditionary company through the days. They will hold out against disappearing. —Anonymous

A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the Ishkanani people, moves in with a wealthy ex-client in New Jersey. Sixteen year old Finn Earl lives with his Swedish massage trained mother Liz Earl in New York City, Finn who wants to get out from under her control in he often needing to be the adult between the two of them. She used to have an above board approach to her work, but has transitioned into doing massage work proverbially advertised in the back of disreputable magazines in order not only to satisfy her sexual needs but support her substance abuse, largely of cocaine and alcohol. Finn had been invited by his biological father, a world famous anthropologist who he's never met, to spend the summer with him in South America where he is currently living among and studying the Ishkanani tribe of peoples. But an incident not only kiboshes Finn's ability to travel abroad but shows Liz that she has to clean up her act for her and Finn's sakes. As such, she is easily able to convince aged Ogden C. Osborne, one of her more adoring non-sexual clients and the seventh richest man in the United States, to hire her to be his personal therapist while she and Finn live in one of his guesthouses at his ten square mile country estate in Vlyvalle, New Jersey for the summer. To make this experience more palatable especially in light of what he hoped was going to be a summer with his father, Finn decides to treat this stay like an anthropological study. In doing so, he interacts with the various people in Osbourne's life, from his family (his widowed daughter whose husband was purportedly shot by poachers on the estate, and her two offspring, young adult Bryce, and late teen Maya) to various servants (such as Jilly, the seventeen year old maid of their guesthouse, and Gates, Osbourne's hand picked sheriff who also works as his personal chauffeur) to some of Osbourne's rich neighbors and colleagues. While ultimately befriending most, even Bryce and Maya despite their socioeconomic differences, Finn may find that this "tribe" is more dangerous than the Ishkanani, who are known as the fierce people. —Huggo Trapped in his mother's Lower East Side apartment, sixteen-year-old Finn wants nothing more than to escape New York and spend the summer in South America studying the Iskanani Indians, or "Fierce People," with the anthropologist father he's never met. But Finn's dreams are shattered when he is arrested in a desperate effort to help his drug-dependent mother, Liz, who scrapes by working as a masseuse. Determined to get their lives back on track, Liz moves the two of them into a guest house on the vast country estate of her ex-client, the aging aristocratic billionaire, Ogden C. Osbourne. In Osbourne's close world of privilege and power, Finn and Liz encounter a tribe fiercer and more mysterious than anything they might find in the South American jungle: the super rich. While Liz battles her substance abuse and struggles to win back her son's love and trust, Finn falls in love with Osbourne's beautiful granddaughter, Maya, befriends her charismatic older brother, Bryce, and even wins the favor of Osbourne himself. But when a shocking act of violence shatters Finn's ascension within the Osbourne clan, the golden promises of this lush world quickly sour. And both Finn and Liz, caught in a harrowing struggle for their dignity, discover that membership always comes at a price... —Zoey