Author(s): Rachel Cohn

Children Fiction

Meet the Gwen Stefani of teenage literature: Cyd Charise, sassy, bad and wonderful to know. When Cyd goes home to her family for the summer holidays, she is in a very 'teenage' state of mind! Boyfriend troubles, parent troubles, little brother troubles. When she meets the lovely 'Shrimp' her mother decides she has had enough of her troublesome teenage daughter and sends her to holiday with her 'real' father in New York. The break does Cyd a lot of good - she meets a brother and sister she didn't know she had, she finds a little romance and she comes to terms with some troubles of a different and deeper sort which have been hidden for some time. Cyd Charise has a secret buried and it is only through getting to know herself better that she is finally able to tell those nearest to her what has really gone on in her life. This is a brilliant novel about one summer in the life of the kind of girl you wish had been your best friend. Young Adult Fiction