Gingerbread (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780689843372)

"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.

Author: Rachel Cohn
ISBN-10: 0689843372
ISBN-13: 9780689843372
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2002
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.67h x 5.69w x 0.78d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.1
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 59166 / Gingerbread

Award: Iowa High School Book Award - Nominee
Award: Tayshas Reading - Commended
Award: Evergreen Young Adult Book Award - Nominee
Award: Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Review - Children 01/15/2002 pg. 101
Publishers Weekly 01/21/2002 pg. 91
Kliatt 03/01/2002 pg. 7
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2002 pg. 274
Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2002 pg. 40
Booksense '76 Childrens Spr 02 04/01/2002 pg. 1
Booklist 04/15/2002 pg. 1394
School Library Journal 02/01/2002 pg. 129
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2002 pg. 389 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw
ALA Best Books Young Adults 03/15/2003 pg. 1290
ALA Recmd for Reluctant YA's 03/15/2003 pg. 1311
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2002 pg. 389 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw