Ten-year-old Lois lives next to Miss Goldie, an eighty-year-old woman who doesn't act her age. Miss Goldie calls Lois her reporter because Lois keeps her up-to-date on the neighborhood news. Miss Goldie's cat, Morris, is missing. Lois takes on the challenge of finding Morris. She tries the usual interviewing neighbors, but that doesn't find Morris. When she ventures into Mrs. Ed's forbidden garden, she finds a clue that leads her to why Morris has disappeared.