Twist Magazine Why You'll Dig it: Likeable Cyd will seem like one of your buds.ĮLLEGIRL Rachel Cohn's first book, Gingerbread, takes the reader on a journey through the mind of Cyd Charisse, a troubled teenager who's trying to find herself.
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. Summer in the city is not what Cyd Charisse expects - and Cyd isn't what her newfound family expects, either. 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. Lucky for Cyd, she's always had Gingerbread, her childhood rag doll and confidante.Īfter Cyd tests her parents' permissiveness, she is grounded in Alcatraz (as Cyd calls her room) and forbidden to see Shrimp, her surfer boyfriend. I will be as wild as I wanna be."Īfter 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. "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.
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