Sixteen-year-old Luisa is not looking to win any awards for school spirit. So when her English teacher volunteers her to be an anonymous columnist for the school paper, Luisa's first impulse is to run. But she does want to go to college and it would be nice to have something on her applications.

Her first assignment is to cover her school's latest fundraiser, which pits the girls against the boys. Luisa will cover the events from the female POV, while another anonymous writer provides the male perspective. The two columnists soon find themselves engaged in an epic battle of the sexes - just who does this guy think he is, encouraging his peers to act like Neanderthals with their girlfriends?

And why can't Luisa shake the very sinking feeling that her new unidentified nemesis might also be her new boyfriend?