Christopher and Sarah join their uncle in Australia to raft down the Franklin River, but when they hit whitewater and see a waterfall up ahead Christopher needs to think quickly in order to save them from going over the falls.

Hoping the adventure of a raft trip in Big Bend National Park will lift her spirits, Paul takes Anna to southwest Texas. Instead of the soul-soothing experience they'd longed for, the couple finds a pregnant woman--more dead than alive--and soon they are sucked into a labyrinth of intrigue that leads from the Mexican desert to the steps of the Governor's Mansion in Austin.

When a dam fails and rushing waters sweep away their adult supervisors, five middle schoolers on a white-water rafting adventure are left alone with few supplies and the opportunity to forge powerful bonds as well as develop dangerous disagreements.

When Elmer the patchwork elephant and his cousin Wilbur decide to go whale-watching, as their grandfather Eldo did at their age, their journey becomes far more of an adventure than they anticipated.

Nate, Selena, Tyson, and Alicia are ready for summer, but when Nate convinces everyone to join a white water rafting race, the group's teamwork is put to the test.

A boy learns to read the river when he goes white water rafting with his dad.

Willie's relatives bring her so many provisions for her rafting trip that she almost does not get to go.

Picked on at school by bullies, thirteen-year-old Michael confronts his fears during a trip to Colorado to see his father, who works as a whitewater rafting guide and whom Michael has not seen in eight years.

Park ranger Anna Pigeon and her husband, Paul, go on a rafting trip in Big Bend National Park. She is hoping to recover from her recent brush with death but the couple soon find themselves sucked into a riptide of danger and intrigue that reaches from the Mexican desert to the Texas governor's mansion.

Angry and lonely after her mother dies, eleven-year-old Hattie pretends to be a boy and joins her father on a adventure-filled rafting trip down the Delaware River in the late 1800s to transport logs from New York to Philadelphia.