When boyfriend Elliott breaks up with Jenna Sakai before Christmas break, she just about convinces herself that relationships are for suckers and she is better off without them; but unfortunately she finds herself in competition with Elliott for a journalism scholarship, and worse her first assignment for the newspaper club is to write a personal essay, which is difficult when you are someone who prefers to keep your emotions bottled up--and than...

Four middle-schoolers who publish an alternative newspaper at their Harlem academy for gifted students investigate why a classmate, one of the best chess players in New York City, was caught trying to buy drugs.