Credit-Card Carole

by Sheila Solomon Klass

When her father's decision to quit his lucrative job to "find himself" as an actor changes their family's finances, pampered sixteen-year-old Carole is dismayed that she must give up her credit card and get a job herself.

Genres: Young Adult

144 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published December 1, 1988

About the author

SHEILA SOLOMON KLASS has been writing fiction for young adults for nearly five decades. Her books include The Uncivil War; Shooting Star: A Novel About Annie Oakley; and Little Women Next Door. Ms. Klass lives in New York City.

Ms. Klass passed away in 2014 at the age of 86.

Reviews

[Grace Chan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Written in the first person with a charming voice, our protag Carole is named after 1930’s actress Carole Lombard and is a bona-fide shopaholic. Life to her is “having a good stereo and records and tapes, and a VCR and a Walkman, and shopping at Sam Goody, the Gap, and Bloomies” 🤣🤣 But then it all goes downhill from there, when her dad decides to give up being a successful dentist and try his luck at being a Broadway actor. Super responsible, dad!! 😅

Of course our protag Carole has a growth arc, from a credit-card-carrying shopping freak to a responsible and considerate young lady but what’s the fun in that 🤣🤣🤣 I just wanted more shopping montages and spending sprees!! 🛍️🛍️

The fun stuff:
- Carole’s fave outfit is stone wash jeans and a Bruce Springsteen shirt. Carole is very cool. 😎
- While dad is on his myriad auditions in the big city, he runs into folks like Al Pacino, Matthew Broderick, and Dustin Hoffman. Love all the name dropping 🤣
- Carole’s BFF’s mom has a new boyfriend and he looks like Sly Stallone with his “flashy suits, padded and tight-fitted to show the bod. Big shoulders. And sideburns.” Eww!!

A fun romp, but would have been 4 stars if we had gotten more SHOPPING TIME. Being responsible is just too boring to read about 🤣🤣