Presents a column-style advice book for dogs that shares humorous advice on coping with lazy owners, dog-park etiquette, dog breath, begging techniques, and bird catching.

Feeling misunderstood and unappreciated by her owner, Emma the dog asks for advice from the local canine advice columnist

"Thirteen-year-old Patricia, widely known as Sweet Pea, navigates her parents' unconventional divorce and finds herself in the unlikely role of her town's advice columnist"--

"1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the 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'"--

"A girl with social anxiety becomes the secret voice of the advice column in her middle school newspaper"--