New Jersey transplant Mondo Brando and his out spoken single mom Babs arrive in sunny Playa Del Toro, CA to a world of change. Surrounded by tan beach bodies, Mondo feels like a fish out of water until he meets Woodie. Woodie is the ultimate Playa dude and shows Mondo around the boardwalk and the school halls, introducing him to the off-the-wall characters that fill up this radical town. If Mondo can navigate the gnarly waters of school, bullies, and untouchable babes, he and Woodie have a year full of adventures to look forward to.
"Constant sexting, Twitter-twatting, and face poking" have Ms. Teets and all the parents frustrated by the kids' dependence on technology. They take a weekend off and send the gang on a wilderness expedition with the tough-love former tech-addict Claw. When an accident leaves Claw "dead" and the group of teens alone in the woods with no phones, their true colors come out.
Mondo escorts Woodie's sister to her sweet-16 and gets a little too comfortable in her wealthy world.
Mondo asks a pregnant classmate to the prom; Jeena does not have a date for the prom.
Mondo tries to find out the identity of his father by hacking his mother's Facebook account.
The boys ditch school and head to a nude beach, where Mondo unknowingly takes drugs.
Woodie loses a surf competition and worries that he's lost his "stoke," so the boys turn to Woodie's surf hero, Duke Sanchez, for help conquering an infamous wave, which would bring Woodie's "stoke" back. Milan thinks she might be pregnet.
A call from the principal's office makes Babs worry that she's been too lax as a parent, so she decides to step up her parenting skills when she takes Mondo to a music festival, and helps him impress Jenna in the process.