Nicholas Stone

After losing his mother, a lonely boy decides to (literally) dig up some new friends, but when they mysteriously come back to life, he’s launched into a series of misadventures as he tries to keep their secret safe from neighbors, classmates and social workers alike.

A quirky, unlucky-in-love bachelor volunteers for a secret teleportation experiment, only to find himself transported across the world to the Philippines, where he accidentally disrupts the life of a woman he's been trying to woo online.