By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Southern lady, Dear Miss Sweetie. When her column becomes wildly popular, she uses the power of the pen to address some of society's ills, but she's not prepared for the backlash that follows when her column challenges fixed ideas...

Katie is sad when she is cast as an earthworm in her school play, because that means she cannot be the star.

Disappointed that her monster costume does not frighten anyone, Katie Woo still finds a way to have a happy Halloween.

Katie looks forward to celebrating her birthday at school, and then finds a way to make it even more special when her friend Pedro mentions that he has a summer birthday.

When Katie Woo and her friends go to the beach, Katie is so rude and bossy that her friends do not want to play with her.

Katie's school assignment is to pick a topic and write a research paper on it, and when she picks butterflies as her subject she learns that even small animals can be very interesting.

When Katie misplaces her lucky charm, her mother gives her a journal to write her feelings in.

While shopping with her parents in a mall, Katie helps a lost boy, not realizing that she may be lost, too.