To escape a bad breakup in Bridgefield, New York, almost-eighteen-year-old Emma takes a summer internship in New York City where she, her best friend, and their rich, sophisticated landlady face a series of dating disasters.
Interning for the summer at the magazine "Skirt" in New York City, teenage fashion addict Kira Parker experiences weird roommates, a not-so-perfect romance, an accusation of theft, and continual confrontation with a fellow intern who happens to be the owner's daughter.
During a summer internship as an obituary writer for her local northern New Jersey newspaper, sixteen-year-old Samantha D'Angelo makes some momentous realizations about politics, ethics, her family, romance, and most importantly--herself.
Jessica, a student at New York's Columbia University, has a hard time fitting in with the hipster staff at the Brooklyn-based magazine for which she is interning, and is tempted by three very different guys--a neoconservative resident assistant, the sensitive boy down the hall, and a married Spanish graduate student--when problems with her boyfriend Marcus arise.
Born into London high society, sixteen-year-old Olivia tries to make a name for herself during a summer internship at a New York City fashion magazine while also trying to hide her family connections from her new American boyfriend.
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.
Having left her rural Iowa home for an eight-week summer internship at a New York City fashion magazine, Mel tries to cope with her new roommates and with city life as she follows her dream of becoming a writer.
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