EMMA FREEMAN is waving buh-bye to her standard summer of station-wagoning around the suburbs. This summer she’s heading to the big city. Granted, Emma's only in high school, way less blond, and a whole lot more shoe-deprived, but she’s still ready to give Carrie Bradshaw a run for her money. She’s armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of Sex and the City, a MetroCard, and her best friend—does a girl really need anything else?

Emma’s totally prepped for days at a fabulous internship and nights of socialite-ing around town. But when you’re seventeen and not an heiress, reality is far from pink fizzy drinks and red velvet ropes. As the summer heats up, Emma learns that glamour is hard to come by when your only friend is too boy-crazy to hang, your budget is more H&M than D&G, and you spend eight hours a day working for a man who proves that the devil wears Dockers too.

Add one little white lie told to one very hot coworker, an attempted book deal, and and a roommate who makes Paris Hilton look junior varsity, and this summer in the city is starting to turn into one hot mess.