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Hoping to make a connection with crush Celeste Fanucci, New York teen Dave Rosen begins writing an advice column for the school paper under a female pseudonym. Predictable romantic-comedy complications ensue (Dave transfers his affections to one of his anonymous letter writers only to discover it's Celeste) in a volume that's the literary equivalent of a TV sitcom or teen movie: amusing but slick.