Gladys Gatsby has been cooking gourmet dishes since the age of seven. Now she's eleven, and after a creme brulee accident (just a small fire), Gladys is cut off from the kitchen (and her allowance). She's devastated but soon finds just the right opportunity to pay her parents back when she's mistakenly contacted to write a restaurant review for one of the largest newspapers in the world. But in order to meet her deadline and keep her dream job, Gladys...

A high school student gets a summer internship at a women's magazine and a chance to write her own column, but is sidetracked by a new friendship with a glamorous fashion editor.

Arriving for a summer in her Michigan hometown, aspiring journalist Penny learns that her father, a tabloid journalist, is missing and charred dead bodies are being found in the woods.