Hooray for librarianship! Read moreĪn imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Divisionġ230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020 I got a goth girl to check this book out a couple weeks ago and she loved it. She's likeable enough for adults, but bad enough for punk teenagers. Cyd learns about friendship, what makes a good person, handles issues like safe sex and abortion, learns how to incorporate her family into her fantasy commune, and avoids applying to college like a pro. Now, Shrimp dumped Cyd midway through 'Gingerbread,' but she is aiming to win him back, and simultaneously wants to make some girlfriends because they won't dump her. Cyd's other bff is Sugar, a sassy elderly woman who lives in a nursing home and is now hooking up with Cyd's family's driver, thanks to Cyd's matchmaking skills. She much prefers her off-again boyfriend Shrimp, local surfer god, his even-hotter big brother, and their hippie, pot-growing parents who take off for months at a time. Cyd, whose family celebrates Frank Sinatra's birthday more than Christmas, is just not punk enough for her. This is a sequel to 'Gingerbread,' the story of rich girl Cyd Charisse as she rebels and finds out who she is in suburban San Francisco. This sequel to Gingerbread has all the sharp humor and searing attitude of the original, which ELLEgirl praised as 'not just Another Teen Novel' and Teen People called 'unforgettable.' In Shrimp, Cyd might be a little older and a little wiser, but she's still the same irrepressible free spirit determined to find her own way in the world, on her own terms. Can Cyd get back together with Shrimp and keep the peace with her mom? And can she get a life outside of her all-encompassing boy radar? Cyd has changed, but maybe Shrimp has changed too - and maybe Cyd and Shrimp will need to get to know each other all over again to figure out if it's for real. The boy who dumped Cyd before she left home to spend the summer in New York City. That boy (as her mother called him), who was the primary cause of Cyd being grounded to Alcatraz, formerly known as her room. Shrimp, the hottest pint-size surfer-artist in San Francisco. If Cyd Charisse knows one thing, it's that Shrimp is her true love.

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