Ever Wonder What Carrie Bradshaw Was Like in High School?

Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell is writing a pair of young adult novels, "The Carrie Diaries," HarperCollins announced Wednesday, that "takes readers back to Carrie Bradshaw's formative years in high school, giving an inside look at Carrie's friendships, romances and how she realized her dream of becoming a writer," according to the Associated Press.



"I've always been interested in exploring Carrie's teenage years," Bushnell said, according to E! Online. "Carrie in high school did not follow the crowd-she led it. It was there that she began observing and commenting on the social scene."



According to E! Online, HarperCollins publisher Donna Bray told the Observer this week that the books will be set partly in New York City and partly in the apparently as-yet-undetermined suburb in which the teenage Carrie Bradshaw lived.

E! Online revealed that Bray said it hasn't yet been decided whether Carrie will lose her virginity in the books. It was already introduced on episode 38 of the Sex and the City series when Carrie told Charlotte her moment involved half a joint, a ping-pong table, and an 11th grader named Seth Bateman.



The first book is due in the fall of 2010.