Types of Conflict Lesson

All summer Tanisha has trained for the only available position on the city's youth BMX team. The other finalist is Marcus, her former practice partner, who knows the timing and structure of every run she has planned. Riding first, Marcus performs Tanisha's signature move and then suggests to the judges that she has been imitating him. Tanisha can repeat her routine and appear guilty, or she can attempt something new under pressure. With one run remaining, can she defeat a rival who has turned her own preparation against her?

June sells handmade friendship bracelets on Main Street and every dollar that she earns goes into her telescope fund. Until one afternoon when Officer Pratt stops at her table. He buys two bracelets for his daughters from June and then he delivers some bad news. He informs June of a town ordinance stating that nobody under the age of sixteen can hold a vending permit, and without a permit, the stand has to go. He is perfectly friendly while he takes down her sign but claims that he has to enforce the rule. June decides to take action and fight back so she signs up for five minutes at the next town meeting and starts building her case. Can one young person get a whole town to change its rules?

While helping clean the gym after a basketball game, Evan discovers an unmarked envelope of cash beneath the bleachers. The amount is nearly identical to the fee for a class trip that his family cannot afford, and he is pretty sure that no one witnessed him find it. Keeping the money would give Evan an experience that he has wanted for months, and turning it in might mean surrendering the trip entirely, perhaps for an owner who never appears. With the envelope hidden in his backpack, Evan has to decide whether desire can justify keeping what is not his.

Marlowe has spent her childhood helping her father maintain a lighthouse above a reef known for wrecking ships. During a violent night storm, the tower window shatters, the lamp is extinguished, and her father is injured on the stairs. Now the lighthouse has gone dark and meanwhile, far offshore, a passenger ship continues toward the reef. Marlowe must climb a flooded spiral staircase, cross the exposed lantern room, and restart the lamp while wind and rain batter the tower. Can she restore the signal before the sea drives the ship onto the rocks?

Ingrid, an apprentice bellmaker in an isolated mountain village, restores a cracked bell recovered from the ruins of an abandoned chapel. Every night at midnight, the bell rings once even though no rope is attached. Each note draws a shadow from the graveyard, and each night the procession advances farther into the village. An inscription hidden inside the bell warns that the thirteenth toll will release the dead from the boundary that contains them. With the final night approaching, Ingrid must discover how to silence an object that seems determined to be heard. Can she break the bell's curse before its final toll?

Eli is the youngest rider on a frontier mail route but, despite his young age, he has been trusted with a deed that protects every family in Red Mesa from losing its land. Lexie Diamond, an outlaw leader with plans for the valley, intends to seize and burn the document before the morning hearing. She closes the main road, stations riders at the crossings, and waits at the abandoned rail depot where the remaining trails converge. Can Eli outthink Lexie, evade her gang, and deliver the deed before the land hearing begins at sunrise?

Tasha is the manager for the school basketball team and she runs the scoreboard at the championship game, but tonight the machine has declared its independence. It awards points that nobody scored, it freezes the clock, then leaps it forward thirty seconds, and it sounds the buzzer in the middle of free throws. While both crowds groan, Tasha fights back with everything she has: resets, cable checks, the fix codes buried in the back of the manual, even the old flip-card numbers she digs out of the storage closet as a backup plan. Every repair buys her two minutes before the board seems to invent a new glitch. Can Tasha hold the biggest game of the year together until the final buzzer?

Mae has spent three years helping transform an abandoned city lot into a community orchard and the first major apple harvest is only weeks away. Then she notices tiny holes in the bark and finds hundreds of beetles spreading from tree to tree. The infestation advances faster than the volunteers can contain it, stripping leaves and weakening the youngest trees before anyone understands the scale of the damage. Mae tries to contain the infestation with traps, protective wraps, and selective pruning, but every lost day gives the insects another row. Can she stop the infestation without destroying the trees she is trying to save?

Ken is the only person at the school art show who recognizes the image awarded first prize. Amari, his closest friend, copied the composition almost line for line from an old art book Ken had lent her, and the judges praise Amari's work as original. Reporting the truth could cost Amari the award and perhaps their friendship, and remaining silent would allow another student's work to be overlooked and make Ken part of the deception. The teacher announces that the results will become final the next morning. Now Ken has one night to decide between loyalty and integrity, silence or honesty. Will Ken stay quiet or tell the truth?

The year is 1902 and Emil was born left-handed. His left-hand letters march across the page, straight and proud. But according to the school code in the county, all children must write with the right hand, no exceptions. Miss Fern is a caring and concerned teacher, but even she taps his desk and makes him switch the pencil, because that is simply how things are done. His schoolwork comes out wobbly and smeared, and the unfairness of it starts to burn. Emil has decided to challenge this unfair policy. Can one boy push back against the way things have always been done?