Ninth-grader Ruthie Bayer realizes that she is in love with her best friend Perry, the boy next door, but when competition appears, Ruthie calls on her glamorous aunt for advice.
Eager to launch her career as a celebrity journalist, fifteen-year-old Susanna is excited at the prospect of being a summer intern at Scene magazine but soon discovers that her real job is to be a personal assistant, not a reporter, and that she must find her own way to prove her journalistic talents.
When an overweight high school student from Santa Monica spends the summer in Italy, she learns to relish life and understand the true meaning of beauty.
When an overweight high school student from Santa Monica spends the summer in Italy, she learns to relish life and understand the true meaning of beauty.
Eager to launch her career as a celebrity journalist, fifteen-year-old Susanna is excited at the prospect of being a summer intern at Scene magazine but soon discovers that her real job is to be a personal assistant, not a reporter, and that she must find her own way to prove her journalistic talents.
After spending the summer as an intern at Scene magazine, fifteen-year-old Susanna is asked to accompany her impossibly demanding boss to the Academy Awards, where she is determined to prove herself as more than just a star-struck teenager.
After realizing she has a crush on Perry, the boy next door, ninth-grader Ruthie Bayer calls her aunt, who is a New York romance columnist, for advice on how to change her image to get his attention away from the new girl and on her.
Relates the angst-ridden life of fourteen-year-old Libby Madrigal as she tries to deal with her unhappily married alcoholic father and overeating mother, moving to a new town, and finding the perfect boy to "seriously" kiss.
