Utterly convinced that gender discrimination was the real reason that she lost out on a summer newspaper internship, the aspiring high school journalist Terry Griffith summons up the courage to do the unthinkable. Bent on proving her worth as a reporter, Terry switches schools and assumes a male identity with the assistance of her younger brother, Buddy, hoping to pass herself off as a boy and to prove her point. Before long, the new, swaggering and short-haired Terry arrives at the rival campus to turn the tables on her journalism teacher, completely unaware that an obnoxious bully and an unforeseen teenage love affair await her. But what will it take to be just one of the guys?