| Gingerbread Contributor(s): Cohn, Rachel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0689843372 ISBN-13: 9780689843372 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2002 Annotation: Rachel Cohn's debut novel balances acerbic humor with a cutting-edge sensibility and introduces an author to watch in this tale of trouble maker Cyd and her wild summer of reckoning. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Family - Blended Families - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Adolescence & Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00052225 |
| Lexile Measure: 960 |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.69" W x 8.67" (0.58 lbs) 176 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - California - Geographic Orientation - New York - Locality - San Francisco, California - Locality - New York, N.Y. - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 59166 Reading Level: 6.1 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 7.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |
Contributor Bio(s): Cohn, Rachel: - Rachel Cohn is the bestselling author of You Know Where to Find Me, Gingerbread, Shrimp, Cupcake, Pop Princess, and, with David Levithan, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List, and Dash & Lily's Book of Dares as well as the tween novels The Steps and Two Steps Forward. Born in Washington, DC, she graduated from Barnard College in New York and has lived on both coasts. She lives in Los Angeles. Visit her at RachelCohn.com. |