Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.

Nelly loves to wear her swimsuit, but the thought of swimming scares her, that is until Grandma, who just so happens to be a swimming champion, helps Nelly realize she has nothing to fear.

After finally convincing her mother that she should take swimming lessons, twelve-year-old Emily discovers a terrible and wonderful secret about herself that opens up a whole new world.

On Field Day, Mo swims a lot faster than he knew he could, not because his team might win but because a fish keeps nibbling his toe.

At day camp, the counselor has planned a busy day for the campers. Harry can't play soccer or basketball very well, but watch out for him in the water!

"A fish participates in a school field day"--

"West Palm Beach, 1999. A phone call summons fifty-eight-year-old Cherie Anderson from the frozen tundra of her Minnesota home to help her two mothers--Dale, the mother who left her when she was five and is facing eviction from her budget apartment complex, and Marlys, the mother who raised her from that moment on and who's dying, but won't tell her daughter. Cherie needs a reason to stay in town long enough to give Dale the help she's finally asked...

To finish summer swimming lessons, Eugene brings out his superhero alter ego, Captain Awesome, to confront the "Blobby Blob-Blob" at the deep end of the pool.

Seventeen-year-old competitive swimmer Tess Cooper grapples with the upheaval of her carefully planned future following an epilepsy diagnosis, and works to get back in the pool despite her doctor's advice or her disctracting feelings for the new guy.

"Ages 4-8." After Freddy is pushed into deep water by a couple of toughs, he decides to learn to swim. 2.1 K-3