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Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, March 2002
Hardcover, 176 pages
ISBN-10: 0689843372
ISBN-13: 9780689843372
Grades: 9 - 7
Awards and Nominations
- ALA Best Books For Young Adults
- ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
- Bulletin Blue Ribbon
- Georgia Peach Book Award Master List
- IRA Young Adults' Choices
- Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults
- Publishers Weekly Best Books
- Soaring Eagle Book Award Master List (WY)
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Description
"I will be as wild as I wanna be."
After getting tossed from her posh boarding school, wild, willful, and coffee addicted Cyd Charisse returns to San Francisco to live with her parents. But there's no way Cyd can survive in her parents' pristine house. Lucky for Cyd she's got Gingerbread, her childhood rag doll and confidante, and her new surfer boyfriend.
When Cyd's rebelliousness gets out of hand, her parents ship her off to New York City to spend the summer with "Frank real-dad," her biological father. Trading in her parents for New York City grunge and getting to know her bio-dad and step-sibs is what Cyd has been waiting for her whole life. But summer in the city is not what Cyd expects -- and she's far from the daughter or sister that anyone could have imagined.
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Browse Inside GingerbreadTeen People
Unforgettable.
Twist magazine
Why you'll dig it: Likeable Cyd will seem like one of your buds.
ELLEgirl
Not just Another Teen Novel.
Kirkus ReviewsCyd Charisse embodies the child/woman nature of adolescence as she tows her doll, Gingerbread, through life.
VOYANewcomer Cohn's Cyd-isms -- "sexy-swish hips" and "New Yorkie York"
-- bring to mind the funky vocabulary of Francesca Lia Block's hip heroine, Weetzie Bat....All high school and public libraries should add the irrepressible Cyd to their shelves.
Publishers Weekly[Cyd's] magnetic narrative will keep readers hooked.
School Library JournalFunny and irreverent reading with teen appeal that's right on target.
Suite101.com, November 6, 2009
...In Rachel Cohn's award-winning book Gingerbread, (Simon Pulse, 2003) the narcissistic over-privileged sixteen year old goth-punk-hellion named Cyd Charisse meets the missing pieces of her biological family during a summer visit ...
Suite101.com, October 23, 2009
...In Shrimp's prequel (the YA novel Gingerbread) irrepressible punk princess Cyd Charisse proved to be too much for her stressed-to-the-max family. She left her San Francisco home and went to New York City to spend the summer ...
Suite101.com, October 15, 2009
...her bio-dad Frank who has yet to give her anything besides a trust fund and a telepathic-ragdoll-confidante-best-friend named Gingerbread. Cyd Charisse is thrilled to leave San Francisco behind, especially after soul-mate Shrimp calls for a ...
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