"As Long As He Needs Me (I'll Klingon Steadfastly)"

Yep, that's the title of a song the main character's show choir is performing for a choir competition. But that's not the least of Jenny's problems.
A: She is "Ask Annie" for her school's newspaper and can't tell anyone, least of all her best friend Trina who would spread the word faster than a shark swims toward blood.
B: She is maybe-sorta-kinda crushing on her newspaper editor, also her friend's boyfriend, Scott, who loves to cook and is extremely unavailable.
C: She is currently the only friend of Cara the Cow, a chubby, unpopular, wannabe girl at Jenny's school who has a meltdown at least twice a week at lunch.
D: The most popular teen star, Luke Striker, is going undercover to research a role at Jenny's school and he administration has asked JENNY to be his student guide.
All this would put me at the point of About-To-Explode. Jenny, however, handles it with all the grace you would expect the main character in a Meg Cabot book to have.





While she is showing Luke around school, though, Luke notices things about Jenny. Like how Jenny always smooths everything over, and never stirs up trouble even when it's the right thing to do. And he points this out to Jenny, in the same chapter where he asks her to prom. (I know-- WHAT THE HECK?) So Jenny starts stirring up trouble. She gives Cara the Cow a makeover and turns her into a whole new person. She foils the senior prank that's turning into a sadistic Cabbage Patch doll massacre (don't ask), and she walks out on her superlame show choir class and holds a strike in the library instead.
But you don't think Jenny's got enough on her plate? How's she going to resolve things with her sort-of-friend, want-to-be-more-than-friend Scott?
This book also has the Cabot flair of writing that my friend Cara (not the cow) and I both love. Like here:

"By the time Steve and Trina dropped me off at home Friday night, my nerves were shot. Between trying to
a) keep people from finding out Lucas Smith was really Luke Striker and not a transfer student after all and
b) prevent Luke from thinking everyone at Clayton High was devil spawn on account of the whole Betty Ann and Cara Cow thing and
c) get Trina her hat on time during "All That Jazz," let alone learn the choreography and
d) not slack off all my other stuff, like Ask Annie and trig and keeping Cara from killing herself and all of that,
I was a wreck."
(pg. 104)

Pssshhhh I would be too! But yeah, as in all Cabot books, everything ends up all right in the end, including a few surprising couple choices. Good, but surprising.