Teenager Patty Lane and her worldly identical cousin Cathy navigate family and high school life.

Cathy Lane, teenage daughter of a globe-trotting journalist, comes to live in the home of her uncle, a newspaper editor in New York City. Curiously, Cathy is the spitting image of her uncle's daughter, Patty. Appearances aside, however, the urbane Cathy is nothing like her cousin Patty, who is the typical American teenager.—Stewart M. Clamen <[email protected]>