Tessa and her father experience culture shock when they move out of New York and into a house in the suburbs.

After Ryan Shay is goaded into kissing Tessa, she's shocked (and a little disgusted) to find there's serious chemistry between them.

George joins the PTA and quickly becomes queen bee, making former queen bee Sheila Shay feel threatened. Meanwhile, Tessa joins the school newspaper and helps Malik revamp it into a tabloid-style paper.

Tessa channels her inner `suburban girl' for a Halloween costume, but it ends up spooking her friends and everyone at school since she reminds them of a recently `departed' resident of Chatswin.

Fed up with waste generated by the cafeteria, Tessa encourages the student body with giving back but the charity chosen isn't exactly what she had in mind.