"We find both the responses of Little Brown and their author Kaavya Viswanathan deeply troubling and disingenuous. Ms. Viswanathan's claim that similarities in her phrasing were 'unconscious' or 'unintentional' is suspect. We have documented more than forty passages from Kaavya Viswanathan's recent publication "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life" that contain identical language and/or common scene or dialogue structure from Megan McCafferty's first two books, "Sloppy Firsts" and "Second Helpings". This extensive taking from Ms. McCafferty's books is nothing less than an act of literary identity theft ... Based on the scope and character of the similarities, it is inconceivable that this was a display of youthful innocence or an unconscious or unintentional act."