"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'"--

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

When Miss Know-It-All's inbox overflows with pleas for guidance, Nikki Maxwell, the school newspaper advice columnist, turns to her best friends for help.

Dogs across the United States write to Mr. Mutt, a people expert, for help with their humans.

A feline advice columnist assists other animals with their problems, such as a parrot whose owners complain that he talks too much, a groundhog who feels the pressure of predicting the weather, and a cat who objects to being pampered.

Thirteen-year-old Amy is spending a miserable two weeks on a tiny Irish island with feuding relatives when she and her seventeen-year-old Aunt Clover, with whom she writes an advice column, get sent to Miami, Florida.

Mean-girl MacKenzie is planning to use her school newspaper column to spread rumours about Brandon, so Nikki decides to join the paper to keep an eye on her! Assigned the role of Miss-Know-It-All, the paper's agony aunt, at first answering letters is fun, but when her inbox starts overflowing, Nikki needs some help herself! Can she keep up with demand and stop MacKenzie from getting Brandon into trouble?