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The Carrie Diaries and Summer in the City
Candace Bushnell
The Carrie Diaries: The Carrie Diaries & Summer in the CityMeet teenage Carrie Bradshaw as she hits the bright lights, big city of New York for the very first time! Find out how Carrie transforms from country girl to super-cool fashionista, from the globally bestselling author of SEX AND THE CITY.Carrie is in love with New York City – the crazy characters in her neighbourhood, the vintage-clothing boutiques, the wild parties and the glamorous man who has swept her off her feet. Best of all, she's finally in a real writing class, taking her first steps toward fulfilling her dream.Carrie learns to navigate her way around the Big Apple, going from being a country "sparrow" – asSamantha Jones dubs her – to the person she always wanted to be. But as it becomes increasingly difficult to reconcile her past with her future, Carrie realises that making it in New York is much more complicated than she ever imagined.With her signature wit and sparkling humour, Candace Bushnell reveals the irresistible story of how Carrie met Samantha and Miranda, and what turned a small-town girl into one of the New York City's most unforgettable icons, Carrie Bradshaw.
The Carrie Diaries
CANDACE BUSHNELL
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2014
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THE CARRIE DIARIES
The Carrie Diaries © Candace Bushnell, 2010
Summer and the City © Candace Bushnell, 2011
The Carrie Diaries cover image © Lauren Nicole/Getty Images
Summer and the City © Nik Keevil
Candace Bushnell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
Source ISBN:
The Carrie Diaries: 9780007312061 Summer and the City: 9780007312085 Bundle Edition (Containing The Carrie Diaries and Summer and the City) © DECEMBER 2014 ISBN: 9780008124267 Version:2014-10-14
Table of Contents
Cover (#uf176b3d1-619a-5f09-8b59-0bd01fe40a15)
Title Page (#u638e3b24-4147-5ed4-bd9e-fd2a67055d09)
Copyright (#ud8d2445a-f43c-5e27-b7a6-6102d71a7728)
THE CARRIE DIARIES (#u65dbc7b9-852b-557f-9fff-955b627adbde)
SUMMER AND THE CITY (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)
Also by the Author (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
The Carrie Diaries
CANDACE BUSHNELL
For Calvin Bushnell
Table of Contents
Cover (#u65dbc7b9-852b-557f-9fff-955b627adbde)
Title Page (#u264baa2b-d256-5762-be77-5aac22b79ddf)
Dedication (#u5bc3d6e9-cc06-5bf9-bd7d-0556e3858f61)
CHAPTER ONE - A Princess on Another Planet (#udbd11927-634f-52f0-9259-979fa9844166)
CHAPTER TWO - The Integer Crowd (#uf34e6246-ece4-5d91-a679-1743ce211a9a)
CHAPTER THREE - Double Jeopardy (#u047da7a8-f9e3-5923-b77e-a191cf7ae95e)
CHAPTER FOUR - The Big Love (#ubdfd79e5-7305-585f-bfc4-2359dc204e46)
CHAPTER FIVE - Rock Lobsters (#ueb6b21c5-5fce-59a7-9342-422b5b156a76)
CHAPTER SIX - Bad Chemistry (#u8781a3eb-459a-5363-9b12-9057c6c1c040)
CHAPTER SEVEN - Paint the Town Red (#ua10be738-4074-50b9-8cc0-b6109cfefec1)
CHAPTER EIGHT - The Mysteries of Romance (#ue051bfee-56c3-5177-bd52-17d05ca1e8e0)
CHAPTER NINE The - Artful Dodger (#uc7023ee0-8772-5544-91cf-2f75dfecaed3)
CHAPTER TEN - Rescue Me (#u72a5ac41-e514-525b-a163-94d2d62d52e8)
CHAPTER ELEVEN - Competition (#u7f864ca3-fc29-55e8-9dba-534188a8f8fc)
CHAPTER TWELVE - You Can’t Always Get What You Want (#ub43e4fc6-9a87-574c-86fb-38a6ea910904)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - Creatures of Love (#ud97a56cc-59dd-5f77-8911-14e917fb870f)
CHAPTER FOURTEEN - Hang in There (#uac735dca-6ccd-509b-b0c2-06a7ef2ebe74)
CHAPTER FIFTEEN - Little Criminals (#u7f98f957-81b8-5bfe-95ea-2c85a9a0a6d1)
CHAPTER SIXTEEN - How Far Will You Go? (#u8fb1d05e-d436-5cd4-808f-b6e0026f37c9)
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - Bait and Switch (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - Cliques Are Made to Be Broken (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER NINETEEN - Ch-ch-ch-changes (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TWENTY - Slippery Slopes (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE - The Wall (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO - Dancing Fools (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE - The Assumption of X (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR - The Circus Comes to Town (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE - Lockdown at Bralcatraz (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX - The S-H-I-T Hits the Fan (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN - The Girl Who… (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT - Pretty Pictures (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE - The Gorgon (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER THIRTY - Accidents Will Happen (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE - Pinky Takes Castlebury (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO - The Nerd Prince (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE - Hold On to Your Panties (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR - Transformation (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE - A Free Man in Paris (#litres_trial_promo)
CHAPTER ONE A Princess on Another Planet (#ulink_5a8f8dfb-78d6-5d4f-9fff-733dcfac84ee)
They say a lot can happen in a summer.
Or not.
It’s the first day of senior year, and as far as I can tell, I’m exactly the same as I was last year.
And so is my best friend, Lali.
“Don’t forget, Bradley, we have to get boyfriends this year,” she says, starting the engine of the red pickup truck she inherited from one of her older brothers.
“Crap.” We were supposed to get boyfriends last year and we didn’t. I open the door and scoot in, sliding the letter into my biology book, where, I figure, it can do no more harm. “Can’t we give this whole boyfriend thing a rest? We already know all the boys in our school. And—”
“Actually, we don’t,” Lali says as she slides the gear stick into reverse, glancing over her shoulder. Of all my friends, Lali is the best driver. Her father is a cop and insisted she learn to drive when she was twelve, in case of an emergency.
“I hear there’s a new kid,” she says.
“So?” The last new kid who came to our school turned out to be a stoner who never changed his overalls.
“Jen P says he’s cute. Really cute.”
“Uh-huh.”Jen P was the head of Leif Garrett’s fan club in sixth grade. “If he actually is cute, Donna LaDonna will get him.”
“He has a weird name,” Lali says. “Sebastian something. Sebastian Little?”
“Sebastian Kydd?” I gasp.
“That’s it,” she says, pulling into the parking lot of the high school. She looks at me suspiciously. “Do you know him?”
I hesitate, my fingers grasping the door handle.
My heart pounds in my throat; if I open my mouth, I’m afraid it will jump out.
I shake my head.
We’re through the main door of the high school when Lali spots my boots. They’re white patent leather and there’s a crack on one of the toes, but they’re genuine go-go boots from the early seventies. I figure the boots have had a much more interesting life than I have. “Bradley,” she says, eyeing the boots with disdain. “As your best friend, I cannot allow you to wear those boots on the first day of senior year.”
“Too late,” I say gaily. “Besides, someone’s got to shake things up around here.”
“Don’t go changing.” Lali makes her hand into a gun shape, kisses the tip of her finger, and points it at me before heading for her locker.
“Good luck, [A-Z]ngel,” I say. Changing. Ha. Not much chance of that. Not after the letter.
Dear Ms. Bradshaw, it read.
Thank you for your application to the New School’s Advanced Summer Writing Seminar. While your stories show promise and imagination, we regret to inform you that we are unable to offer you a place in the program at this time.
I got the letter last Tuesday. I reread it about fifteen times, just to be sure, and then I had to lie down. Not that I think I’m so talented or anything, but for once in my life, I was hoping I was.
I didn’t tell anyone about it, though. I didn’t even tell anyone I’d applied, including my father. He went to Brown and expects me to go there, too. He thinks I’d make a good scientist. And if I can’t hack molecular structures, I can always go into biology and study bugs.
I’m halfway down the hall when I spot Cynthia Viande and Tommy Brewster, Castlebury’s golden Pod couple. Tommy isn’t too bright, but he is the center on the basketball team. Cynthia, on the other hand, is senior class president, head of the prom committee, an outstanding member of the National Honor Society, and got all the Girl Scout badges by the time she was ten. She and Tommy have been dating for three years. I try not to give them much thought, but alphabetically, my last name comes right before Tommy’s, so I’m stuck with the locker next to his and stuck sitting next to him in assembly, and therefore basically stuck seeing him—and Cynthia—every day.
“And don’t make those goofy faces during assembly,” Cynthia scolds. “This is a very important day for me. And don’t forget about Daddy’s dinner on Saturday.”
“What about my party?” Tommy protests.
“You can have the party on Friday night,” Cynthia snaps.
There could be an actual person inside Cynthia, but if there is, I’ve never seen it.
I swing open my locker. Cynthia suddenly looks up and spots me. Tommy gives me a blank stare, as if he has no idea who I am, but Cynthia is too well brought up for that. “Hello, Carrie,” she says, like she’s thirty years old instead of seventeen.
