A young 11 year old girl named Shawna has a hard time making friends and it is even harder when your mother keeps moving you around all the time. Shawna has a creative imagination and is a very good artist, who needs new friends when you can create them is her mindset. Shawna creates a cartoon called "The Adventures of Dan and Shawna", everything is going well in her new school until some girls decide to pick on Shawna and her notebook goes into a puddle and is ruined. Shawna doesn't like anything about her new home, that is, until she is given a notebook by a strange Woman named Cassandra and suddenly her cartoons come to life.