Books with title The Gingerbread Boy

"I have promised to be a model citizen daughter....I have confined my Shrimp time to making out with him in the Java the Hut supply closet and quick feels on the cold hard sand at the beach during our breaks, but enough is enough....Delia and I are planning a party at Wallace and Shrimp's house and I am spending the night whether Sid and Nancy notice or not. I will be as wild as I wanna be." After being kicked out of a fancy New England boarding school, Cyd Charisse is back home in San Francisco with her parents, Sid and Nancy, in a household that drives her crazy. Lucky for Cyd, she's always had Gingerbread, her childhood rag doll and confidante. After Cyd tests her parents' permissiveness, she is grounded in Alcatraz (as Cyd calls her room) and forbidden to see Shrimp, her surfer boyfriend. But when her incarceration proves too painful for the whole family, Cyd's parents decide to send her to New York to meet her biological father and his family, whom Cyd has always longed to know. Summer in the city is not what Cyd Charisse expects -- and Cyd isn't what her newfound family expects, either. With Gingerbread, debut author Rachel Cohn creates a spirited world of in-your-face characters who are going to stay with readers for a long time.

A classic folk tale in the format of a beginning reader, for ages 5-8For years the most progressive educators have been urging that only good literature should be used in school readers. Experience proves that all children are interested in and enjoy the simple folk tales, which are the literary products of many minds. The Gingerbread Boy is an excellent resource for the beginning reader.

***WARNING*** These are folktales from the New Country and they have TEETH. Yes, they are written for tots. Small children love the old folktales and parents hate them. Why? Parents find the world they have to bring their children into terrifying and want to tell them happy stories, about happy things which end with everyone being happy. Children are already aware of the world they are in and they like to laugh at the BIG BAD WOLF when he gets his punishment. They like the ideas of justice and bravery. Also part of them really likes kids and animals that act like they do. Which sometimes means BADLY. But the morals of the old folktales were for a different time and so we move to Folk Tales From The New Country. In this edition we have the VERY, VERY, VERY Bad Gingerbread boy. Why so many Verys? Because sometimes people can really be that bad. In this case a Gingerbread boy goes so bad he becomes a politician! Yes, scary stuff. But that is what the Folk Tales from the New Country are about. So remember, you have been warned! Contains Humor, heroes, bad Jokes, and advice on the proper consumption of cookies. Super Bonus inside - two $25 words. If your tot learns to use these two words they will immediately get moved to the head of the line in school and be on the fast track to a well-paying career and a fulfilling relationship when they grow up.