| Booktalk
#1
"My so-called parents hate
my boyfriend, Shrimp. I'm not sure they even believe he is my boyfriend.
They take one look at his five-foot-five, surfer-shirt-wearin', baggy-jeans-slouchin',
Pop Tart-eatin', spiked-hair-head self and you can just see confusion firebombs
exploding in their heads, like they are thinking, Oh no, Cyd Charisse,
that young man is not your homes.
Dig this: He is."
When Cyd stays out late with
Shrimp once too often, her mom and stepdad decide they've had enough -
maybe her father can do something with her. So they send her from San Francisco
to New York for the summer, to stay with a man she's only met once in her
life.
Susan Dunn (Colorado
Blue Spruce Children's Award)
Booktalk #2
Poor
little rich punk girl. Can't stay out all night with her sexy surfer boyfriend
at his brother's house, so she does her best to drive her parents crazy.
So what do they do? Send her to live in New York City with the father she
has never known. Is that really going to fix things, or just open her up
to a whole new world of trouble?
By
Dawn Rutherford of King County Library System for Evergreen
Young Adult Book Award
Booktalk #3
Cyd
Cherisse, expelled from boarding school, goes back home to San Francisco
to live with Nancy and Sid, her mother and stepfather. Sid affectionately
calls her his “hellion”, but Nancy always seems to be on Cyd’s case for
one thing or another. Luckily, Cyd always has Gingerbread, the childhood
rag doll her biological father gave her the one time they met, to confide
in. After she stays out past curfew with her boyfriend, Shrimp, one too
many times, she’s grounded in Alcatraz/the puke princess room, as Cyd refers
to her bedroom, decorated by her mother in a House Beautiful but no one
lives here style. Finally, no one can stand her Helen Keller impression
and moping about anymore, and they decide to send her to New York to live
with her bio-dad for the summer. Cyd’s always wanted to get to know him
and her half-siblings. It may not be what she expected, but then, Cyd is
seldom what anyone expected. Attitude, attitude, attitude. Spoiled she
may be, but Cyd and Gingerbread are true originals.
By Cindy Claypool of King County
Library System for Evergreen
Young Adult Book Award |
