Gingerbread

Title:Gingerbread
Author:Rachel Cohn
Reviewed By: Melanie Smith

Cyd Charisse is the weird girl in school who has no friends exept for an old lady at a nursing home and a doll named Gingerbread with whom she shares all of her thoughts and feelings with.
She was accidently conceived when her real dad cheated on his wife with Cyd's mom. Both parents decided it would be best if she was raised by her mom withour barely any contact with her dad and his family.
She thinks she meets the love of her life, a guy named Shrimp, and they become inseparable. Shrimp and his brother own a coffee shop where Cyd helps out and makes her amazing-tasting coffee. But after an incident, in which Cyd is grounded by her not-understanding mother, they are forced to break up.
Cyd's mom and step-dad think that syd is old enough to spend a few weeks with her real Dad in New York. She has an interesting time there. She forms a close relationship with her cake-making half brother and his boyfriend and a rather akward one with her dad. Cyd and her half sister start off not liking each other too much but then they get to know each other and Cyd finds out that she's not that bad.
Her mom and step-dad come to visit her in New York shortly before it was time for Cyd to go back to San Fransisco. Cyd Charisse confesses to her mom of some trouble that her and her ex-ex- boyfriend got into of whom turned her into a bad girl origanilly. Come to find out, Cyd's mom understands more than anybody.
I would advice any teenage girl who wants to read a story filled with love, family, and confusion to try this one. I think that any girl could somehow relate to Cyd Charisse and her best friend Gingerbread.