After getting tossed from her posh boarding school, wild, willful, and coffee addicted cyd charisse returns to San Francisco to live with her parents. But there's no way Cyd can survive in her parents, pristine house. Lucky for cyd she's got Gingerbread, her childhood rag doll and confidante, and her new surfer boyfriend.

When Cyd's rebelliousness gets out of hand, her parents ship her off to New York city to spend the summer with “ Frank real-dad,” her biological father. Trading in her parents for New York City grunge and getting to know her bio-dad and half-sibs is what Cyd has been waiting for whole life. But summer in the city is not what cyd expects-and she's far from the daughter or sister that anyone could have imagined.

 

Rachel Cohn is a graduate of Barnard College and lives in Manhattan . Her first novel, Gingerbread, was named to the Best of 2002 lists for publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Barnes & Noble, and the Bulletin of the Center for childern's Books, and was a Book Sense 76 pick. Rachel Cohn is also the author of the middle-grade novel the Steps, for which she was praised with a starred review in publisher's Weekly for “ once again creating a funny and feisty narrator. “ Look out for Cohn's next teen novel, Pop princess.