Gingerbread
Books | Young Adult Fiction / Social Themes / New Experience
3.4
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Rachel Cohn
"I have promised to be a model citizen daughter....I have confined my Shrimp time to making out with him in the Java the Hut supply closet and quick feels on the cold hard sand at the beach during our breaks, but enough is enough....Delia and I are planning a party at Wallace and Shrimp's house and I am spending the night whether Sid and Nancy notice or not. I will be as wild as I wanna be."After being kicked out of a fancy New England boarding school, Cyd Charisse is back home in San Francisco with her parents, Sid and Nancy, in a household that drives her crazy. Lucky for Cyd, she's always had Gingerbread, her childhood rag doll and confidante.After Cyd tests her parents' permissiveness, she is grounded in Alcatraz (as Cyd calls her room) and forbidden to see Shrimp, her surfer boyfriend. But when her incarceration proves too painful for the whole family, Cyd's parents decide to send her to New York to meet her biological father and his family, whom Cyd has always longed to know.Summer in the city is not what Cyd Charisse expects -- and Cyd isn't what her newfound family expects, either.With Gingerbread, debut author Rachel Cohn creates a spirited world of in-your-face characters who are going to stay with readers for a long time.
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Author
Rachel Cohn
Pages
224
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2011-03-08
ISBN
1439115478 9781439115473
Ratings
Google: 4.5
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"I thought this was a cute book with a fun and feisty character with a great name..."Cyd Charisse". I enjoyed reading about her daily exploits...what she was going to do next...what she would be thinking next...and how at 16 she still had a doll that was her best friend..."Gingerbread". The thing that I didn't like about the book was how sexually active she was for her age and how much she thought about "doing it" all the time. I tried to remember being that age and I really don't feel I was that into the sex thing...I remember wanting to make-out alot...but not the actual "doing-it". I'm not sure if I would want my 13 year old daughter to read this book at this time. I think it would be a little too involved in things I don't want her to be involved in yet. I'm just a mom that wants to keep her kids protected from the world I suppose....however impossible that may be....at least I can try....*smile*<br/> <br/>"
Tracy Walters
"One of the very few non fantasy based books I have read and loved it and its sequel shrimp. I would love to find more books like this and possibly re read these as it's been a decade since I had the pleasure."
Jessi Bourdon