Complications in twelve-year-old Cornie's life, among them divorced parents and a new baby half-sister, help Cornie and her best friend Megan find a theme for the school photojournalism project.
When ten-year-old Jason moves from New York to Los Angeles, he finds himself telling wildly exaggerated stories about being a junior photojournalist and investigative reporter.
Sixteen-year-old Alexa plans to do a photo-shoot on horseback in Central Park as her special project for Flirt magazine, but sabotage by a fellow intern and her own nature get in her way.
Buzz Bumble, widely admired for his flying ability, resents having to watch the cute new baby when he should be practicing for an important visitor, but only he can rescue Baby when she takes a misstep into a Venus fly trap.
Features over 350 duotone reproductions of both famous and never-before-published photographs by American photojournalist W. Eugene Smith, taken between 1934 and 1975; and includes essays that discuss various aspects of Smith's life and career.