Lucky T - Softcover

Kate Brian

3.58

2,331 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0689875800 ISBN 13: 9780689875809

Publisher: Gardners Books, 2005

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Carrie Fitzgerald is just the luckiest girl. She's the youngest team member on the high school basketball team, she always gets the lead in the school play, and, best of all, she's going out with the cutest boy in school. Carrie Fitzgerald is also the most SUPERSTITIOUS girl - she attributes all of her good luck to a T-shirt that her father sent her from Morocco. So, when her mother accidentally donates Carrie's lucky T to the 'Help India' fund, Carrie soon feels like her good luck is running out. So Carrie does what any logical girl would do... and travels halfway around the world to get it back! But as she scours a foreign land for her lucky T, she finds a lot more than she ever expected... Carrie's going to need more than luck to find her way back home again.

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About the Author:

Kate previously worked for 17th Street Productions in New York, and has written several young adult novels under a different name. She lives outside of New York City.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 8 Up–A fairy tale set in India, this sweet yet predictable book ends happily ever after. Carrie, a talented, beautiful, selfish, yet likable teenager, is in Calcutta trying to track down her lucky T-shirt that was accidentally sent to a shelter there. This shirt is one of the few connections she has with her often-absent, divorced father. She makes the trip on the premise that she wants to build housing for the less fortunate, but definitely puts her search for her shirt first. She meets Dee, a gorgeous volunteer at an orphanage, and goes to work there, again for the wrong reasons. Dee and Carrie find themselves in an up-and-down relationship as she struggles with her materialism and his self-righteousness. Carrie grows to love the children and realizes how fortunate she is to have family, friends, and material things. Although the message is strong, the character development is somewhat lacking. Still, this is an enjoyable read in which the girl gets the guy, reconciles with her best friend, and learns what really matters most in her life. Fans of Meg Cabot's The Princess Diaries series will enjoy it.–Julie Webb, Shelby County High School, Shelbyville, KY
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