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Summary: absolutely fabulous!
Review: I think this is the best book I've read all summer. It's honest, and I feel I can relate to the main character so well. I highly recommend everyone to read this book. It's hopelessly addicting, and impossible to put down.I was so obsessed with the doll Gingerbread, that I had one custom made for me at TurdDemon.com & named it Gingerbread. That's how dedicated I am to this book.
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Summary: Awsome Book (and Dana rocks!)
Review: This is such an awsome book about a girl who has done thru drugs and abortion and boarding school and one really sucky boyfriend, etc. She is so real and that's what makes it great. It touches upon all the bad things just enough, but not so much as to make you feel like you're being preached to. Seriously people, read it.(It also goes into how unbelievably amazing NYC is, which is always good in my book! and there's some stuff on Frisco too, but ya know...I'm not too big on California)
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Summary: Great book
Review: This book is something that many girls can go to and say "Wow my life could be worse" Its a great book! I loved it from the beginning to the end. The way she daydreamed and how her relationships would build with people. Boyfriend problems and being locked up in your room with nowhere to go are all something I could relate to. Parents not understanding you so they yell. Theres many things that girls my age can relate to and many things that only some could. But either way it s great book! Sad at parts but it keeps ya thinking. Also i really want to find out what happened between her and shrimp. Maybe theyll be a sequel? ~Jen
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Summary: excellent reading
Review: This book was absolutely amazing. It showed the troubles and trials of being a teenager from a brutally frank, abstract sort of girl! I adored this book and Cyd Charrisse as well. I did not envy her but nor did I feel too sorry for her, rather I empathised with her, even though her problems and blessings are on a scale much larger than whatever I have been through, but then again, isn't that what all books should be - larger than life? Anyways, this book was fantastic and enthralling, I couldn't put it down even after I read it the first time!
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Summary: Great but Short
Review: With an original plot line added in to the whole teen pregnancy thing this book is a great read. You'll fall in love with the weird ways of Cyd Charisse and her friends. This book keeps you turning the pages, which brings to the one dissapointing thing about Gingerbread-the size. Although a good read it is super small, which, for an avid reader like me, is annoying. Nevertheless, pick up a copy and start reading, because, though it may be short, it is sweet.
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Summary: Funny, interesting, informative, and just plain good!!!
Review: This one one of my new favorite books. As soon as I started reading this book I got pulled in and I couldn't stop reading. This is a book that I think every teenage girl should read because it deals with problems many teens have. It is also a very interesting and funny book. I love hoe Cyd Charisse always talks about starting her own communes. If this was a series I would definetly read all of them.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: Gingerbread has to be one of my top ten faorite books. I enjoyed hearing a teenager's trials and tribulations, which are not at all like my own! I could not put Gingerbread down from the moment I picked it up I read it during classes, in between class change and even at lunch! I can not imagine someone reading Gingerbread and not loving it from the instant they began reading it. Gingerbread is simply about a girl going through life with a complicated boyfriend named Shrimp, a broken home with several step relatives, and getting to know a whole new family! If you enjoy reading this book Rachel Cohn is currently writing Shrimp, the sequel to Gingerbread! Please pick up this book it would be a great addition to your library!
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Summary: If Cyd Charisse was real, I'd want her to be my friend...
Review: Cyd Charisse is back on the west coast after being kicked out of a fancy east coast boarding school. That seems to be okay with her, for she befriends a woman in a nursing home, and finds Shrimp, who just might be the love of her life. However, things happened at boarding school that Cyd hasn't told anyone, and to get out of her problems, she had to call on someone she hasn't seen in years- her biological father. After an attempt to stay overnight at Shrimp's house goes awry, Cyd's parents decide it would do good for her to visit her father in New York, a man who was already married with two children when he got involved with Cyd's mother. The one thing that slightly annoyed me about this book was how much slang the author used. However, that's how many teens talk, so I suppose that helped make Cyd more realistic. You'll find yourself utterly wrapped up in Cyd's life and feeling her emotions along the way with this book. I'm hoping for a sequel.
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Summary: This is an awesome book!!!!!!
Review: Gingerbread is about a fifteen-year-old girl named Cyd Charisse that gets into some trouble at her New England boarding school and gets sent back to her rich parents in California. Cyd meets Shrimp, a fun-loving surfer dude and his brother Wallace who owns a coffee shop called Java the Hut. She gets a job as a barista and works with Wallace and Shrimp. She hates her parents and doesn?t get along with them very well, so she rarely does what they say.
One night she stays the night with Shrimp and Wallace and her parents find out, so she is grounded, for a long time. She is not allowed to see Shrimp or Wallace and she is forced to quit her job at Java the Hut. The whole time she is banished to her room, she talks with her favorite doll Gingerbread, which her biological dad gave to her. She is gloomy and depressed and gets on her parents? nerves. Her parents are so sick of her attitude; they finally let her leave the house. When so goes to see Shrimp, he tells her that they have had enough time away from each other and that they need to take a break. She was devastated, and she was even more depressed that before, and there was only one thing besides Shrimp that would make her happy.
When her parents ask her if she would like to spend a while with her biological dad in New York, she is overjoyed, this is the on thing that would make her happy. She almost forgets about Shrimp, but when she gets to New York she realizes that her dad is not all she expected. On the way she meets her brother, sister and the infamous maker of Gingerbread. Will everything change when she finally comes home? Will everything be different without Shrimp? Read this book and find out!!
I really enjoyed this book and I think any person would enjoy reading this book. It was funny, inspiring, and very dramatic at times, it gives you the perspective of life in a teenagers eyes.
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Summary: Gingerbread
Review: I gave this book four stars because it was really the kind of book where it's an easy enjoyable read, nothing spectacular, but yet original. Right when I opened this book, and read the first couple of lines, I knew it would be a book I would enjoy. Between each characters distinctive personalities, like the spontanious "little hellion" herself (Cyd Charisse) to the emotional confessions made to her beloved doll, Gingerbread, who was given to her by her biological father. With each chapter of the book, you seemed to know more and more about Cyd Charisse's life and personality, every page was a piece of her waiting to be read. Through Cyd's journeys and accomplishments, wether it's in her utopian dream or reality, her emotions shine through and grab you into the book.
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