Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2722 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-26
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

Synopsis
Gone are the days when Ginger was an outsider, always on the fringes of friendship. She's swapped puppy fat and pigtails for make-up and hair straighteners and never looked back - until now. Ginger and Shannon are best mates, but when they befriend lonely Emily, everything changes. Even the saxophone-playing boy in the trilby hat can't help - he's part of the problem...Are Ginger and Shannon drifting apart or can they stay best friends forever? A gorgeously tender-hearted story about secrets, friends and fitting in from the new queen of tween, Cathy Cassidy. This book is sure to ring true with readers of 8-13.

Customer Reviews

Ginger Snaps
Ginger Snaps by Cathy Cassidy is a entertaining book which tells the life about a girl Ginger Brown. As a younger girl she was a loner no friends with puppy fat and pigtails. But as she grows up and is going into high school her older sister Cassia gives her a makeover and she swaps her puppy fat and pigtails for make-up and hair straighteners and she has never looked back...until now. Ginger and her best friend Shannon befriend lonely Emily when her best mate Meg moves to New Zealand and then everything changes and Ginger and Shannon find themselves drifting apart. Plus to make things worse Ginger has a crush on the saxophone playing trilby hat wearing tippex covered jeans converse trainers wearing boy Sam... who Shannon does not like and Sam likes Ginger back and call her Ginger Snaps. So Ginger finds herself in a diiferent world keeping secrets from her best friend hiding from Shannon. I she a normal person anymore.

Ginger Rocks
Having read all of Cathy's previous books, I was in haste to buy her new novel, Ginger Snaps, from my local bookstore. I'm pleased to say that again Cathy does not disappoint.
I won't go into detail about the plot of Cathy's latest novel, but what I will say is that it is a story of failing friendships, & not being afraid to express your individuality.
All in all, it is enjoyable read, with an ending that really makes you think: Just because some people are seen as cool & popular, it does not necessarily mean that they are a kind-hearted person inside.
With Ginger Snaps, author Cathy Cassidy shares an important & meaningful life lesson to her readers, old & new: Follow your heart.

This book deserves way more than just 5 stars.
Seriously, get this book or miss out!!!
By Lisa, age 14.
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