The story of a girl reporter- whose career for an eighteen year old, is well nigh unbelievable. Cute, red-haired Marty lives in a Chicago suburb. She's a champion golfer and just after a splendid senior year in highschool, wins a local tournament and is subsequently sent by a big Chicago newspaper, The Express to do feature stories from the amateur's viewpoint, for a national tournament in the east. At home again, the paper hires her for rewrites. Then she's promoted to general reporting, but an inexcusable failure to get a story about a movie star gets her demoted to copy girl- from which position she is again promoted by writing a convincing feature story on the sly. A police beat is our Marty's next job. On it, she solves a murder mystery and lays plans for a new boys' club in the district. Meanwhile, Marty's also had three romances, but finally ends up with the nice, serious boy, and they make plans for college before returning to journalism.

From the back cover: Star-Struck Girls. That was Marty Warren's assignment - go to Hollywood and find out what becomes of the thousands of girls who try to break into the movies each year. It was the young girl reporter's biggest job for the paper, and her last before she started college - it had to be good! Marty found glamour in the movie capital, and the thrills and excitement of working with some of the biggest stars. But there was heartbreak too,and Marty found her thoughts turning toward a certain boy back home.... Elisa Bialk takes Marty Warren to a strange and exciting locale - but Marty stays the same spunky, level-headed girl who enchanted the readers of "Marty."

Marty leaned back and tried to relax. So this was her blind date - as extremely blind as one could get! Yet she felt an unexpected flow of triumph: Brad Lane had actually volunteered to come along on the date. Was he such a woman-hater as he liked others to believe? H'mmm - may she'd have to find out for herself! \- From the Paperback