Josie Strife is almost 11 years old and has a lot of problems in life: her parents don’t get on, her best friend is moving out, and her grades aren’t exactly impressive. As if that wasn’t enough, the girls didn’t make the team for the school football tournament. Can it get any worse? As it turns out, yes. Josie’s great-great-grandmother had written in her diary that she could not study painting as she had dreamed, because she was … a woman!Josie won’t just look on as her life falls apart.Together with her friend Angie, she comes up with a plan.