by Rachel Cohn
PRMS hardcover 272 pages
genre: teen realistic fiction, coming-of-age
This book is the follow-up to Gingerbread. Cyd Charisse is determined to be near her "true love," Shrimp (surfer and artist). Like the first installment, I don't feel that drawn to this challenging teenager who defies her mother and pushes boundaries in so many different ways. It's pretty mature. (She has had an abortion after making mistakes with Justin and is sexually active with Shrimp. She also swears like a sailor and has a fairly negative attitude about most things in life.) I'm wondering if I even want to keep it in the middle school collection or if I should send it to the high school . . .
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Thursday, December 12, 2013
Sunday, November 03, 2013
Gingerbread
by Rachel Cohn
PRMS hardcover 172 pages
genre: YA realistic fiction, coming-of-age
Cyd Charisse is an edgy teenager who is living with her mom and stepdad. They get tired of her "hellion" behavior and her time spent with "that boy" (aka Shrimp, her surfer boyfriend) so they send her to New York to spend three weeks with her bio-dad Frank. She has only met Frank once when she was five years old. He gave her a rag doll and some gingerbread, so she named the doll Gingerbread. She confides in her doll and still carries it around as a sixteen year old girl.
Cyd is a believable character with a painful secret. This is an odd, but engaging story. It is definitely for my more mature readers.
PRMS hardcover 172 pages
genre: YA realistic fiction, coming-of-age
Cyd Charisse is an edgy teenager who is living with her mom and stepdad. They get tired of her "hellion" behavior and her time spent with "that boy" (aka Shrimp, her surfer boyfriend) so they send her to New York to spend three weeks with her bio-dad Frank. She has only met Frank once when she was five years old. He gave her a rag doll and some gingerbread, so she named the doll Gingerbread. She confides in her doll and still carries it around as a sixteen year old girl.
Cyd is a believable character with a painful secret. This is an odd, but engaging story. It is definitely for my more mature readers.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Pop Princess
by Rachel Cohn
PRMS hardcover 311 pages
genre: YA romance, coming-of-age
I tried to get a middle schooler to read this and give me her opinion. She couldn't do more than a few chapters, deeming it "too girly." So I started it at lunch yesterday and finished it last night. Wonder Blake is 15 and working at Dairy Queen when her older sister's manager "discovers" her singing and dancing with a mop. Since Lucky was killed by a drunk driver two years earlier, the entire Blake family has been sleepwalking through life. Wonder's journey through life, including sudden pop princess stardom, is actually an interesting one. There are some romance readers who would definitely enjoy the relationships Wonder has in this book . . .
PRMS hardcover 311 pages
genre: YA romance, coming-of-age
I tried to get a middle schooler to read this and give me her opinion. She couldn't do more than a few chapters, deeming it "too girly." So I started it at lunch yesterday and finished it last night. Wonder Blake is 15 and working at Dairy Queen when her older sister's manager "discovers" her singing and dancing with a mop. Since Lucky was killed by a drunk driver two years earlier, the entire Blake family has been sleepwalking through life. Wonder's journey through life, including sudden pop princess stardom, is actually an interesting one. There are some romance readers who would definitely enjoy the relationships Wonder has in this book . . .
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