People bustled around, pausing to make purchases or bargain with hawkers'') and may also get caught up in Carrie's romance with a college student and volunteer, even if the writing occasionally strikes readers as over-the-top (''He had this sultry deepness to his voice that Carrie just wanted to record and listen to on her iPod player for all eternity'').

But readers get a vivid sampling of Calcutta (''A few feet away a man sold steaming hot, spicy-scented meat out of a pot. The plot is predictable, from Carrie's unconvincing reconciliation with Doreen, to her slow realization that she has it better off than most, with or without her shirt. To retrieve her shirt, the California teen joins her mother's hippie best friend and her obnoxious daughter, Doreen (whom she nicknames ''Dor-mean''), on a volunteer vacation in Calcutta. She also secretly hopes that it will ''make her lucky enough to bring her family back together.'' But when her mother accidentally donates the T-shirt to Help India, Jason suddenly breaks up with Carrie, and she blows a big test. When Carrie's parents divorced, her father gave her a ''lucky'' T-shirt from Morocco after that Carrie lands a spot on the varsity basketball team, leads in school plays-and even scores a cute boyfriend, Jason. She resides in New Jersey with her husband and sons.The author of The V Club (aka The Virginity Club, in paperback) cooks up another frothy novel from an original premise and delivers a positive message. She worked as an editor for four years before becoming a writer. She graduated from Pascack Hills High School and attended college at Rutgers University with a double major in English and Journalism. She enjoyed cheerleading, singing, and acting when she was growing up.

Scott is from Montvale, New Jersey and was raised in Bergen County. People didnt just end up best friends with Carly. Books published under Scott's own name include She's So Dead to Us, I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader, which was nominated for YALSA's Teens Top Ten, Brunettes Strike Back, A Non-Blonde Cheerleader in Love, and Geek Magnet. Lila was not about to tell Melinda, now or ever, that luck had nothing to do with how her life had turned out.

Kieran Scott (born Maalso known by her pen name Kate Brian) is an American author of such chick lit books as The Princess and the Pauper, Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys, The Virginity Club, Sweet 16,įake Boyfriend, and the Private series.

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