Busted?

April 24, 2006 - Filed under: YA Booksbloodymandy @ 12:30 pm

Kaavya Viswanathan, a sophmore at Harvard, debut novel How Opal Metha Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life, is under investigation for plagarism. Some of Viswanathan’s passages bears striking similarities to Megan McCafferty’s Sloppy Firsts. Apparently, fans of the Jessica Darling series, the newest Charmed Life was recently released, informed Megan of this incident via email. Both the NY Times and the Boston Globe cover this news in more detail. Warning: you may need to create a free account with Boston Globe to view the article.

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