Pacific Coast Academy, an all-boys' boarding school, is accepting female students for the first time since it was established. Zoey's little brother Dustin is currently a student there, and Zoey decides to be one of the first female students at PCA. This is very exciting, but also very scary. Fitting in at a new school is hard enough, but going away to boarding school and living on your own when you're only 13 can get a little crazy, especially when the the boys vastly outnumber the girls.