Books by Rachel Cohn

After she turns down a marriage proposal from Shrimp and he moves back to New Zealand with his parents, Cyd tries to restart her life in New York City at her half-brother's apartment, but just as she begins to settle in, Shrimp returns, old feelings are reignited, and important decisions will need to be made with little time to spare. Reprint.

"I will be as wild as I wanna be."

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 step-sibs is what Cyd has been waiting for her 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.

Two straight-edge kids with nothing left to lose find themselves suspiciously on the path of love, entangled in a long New York City night overflowing with surprisingly intense kisses, hardcore shows, and endless potential. Still devastated after being dumped by his hot girlfriend, Nick attempts to make her jealous at a club by asking some random girl to be his girlfriend for five minutes. The girl, Norah, is plucky, defensive, and irresistible. With alternate chapters written by popular young-adult authors Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, this fast-paced, hormone-spewing novel shares both the bitterness and the incandescent wonder of love. A Kirkus Best Children's Book of 2006, this enticing work was made into a film in 2008.

High school student Nick O'Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart. Reprint.

High school student Nick O'Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart.

Fifteen-year-old Wonder Blake and her family are trying to recover from the death of Wonder's older sister Lucky, who was about to sign a major record deal when she died. When Lucky's talent manager runs into Wonder at the Dairy Queen where she works, her life takes a dramatic turn--suddenly, despite her own ambivalence, she is the one signing the record deal. Transformed into a teen idol and thrust into the spotlight, Wonder learns what it takes to be a star--and also what it costs. The new world she has entered will leave her forever changed.

Back in San Francisco for her senior year in high school, seventeen-year-old Cyd Charisse attempts to reconcile with her boyfriend, Shrimp, making some girlfriends, and beginning to feel more a part of her family in the process. By the author of Gingerbread. Reprint.

Twelve-year-old Annabel travels to Australia where her father is living with his new wife and Annabel's new step-siblings. Annabel is determined to get her father to move back to her own hometown of New York City, but when she sees how happy he is in Australia, she begins to question whether her plan will actually cause her to lose her dad to his new family...forever.

Wanting to go to Australia for summer vacation to see her special friend, Ben, Annabel is depressed when she learns she will be going to LA to visit her dad and his family, but as events unfold, the summer turns out to be a great success as new friendships are formed and old relationships strengthened.

Antisocial and overweight, Miles has always dreamed of being like her perfect and popular cousin Laura, but when Laura commits suicide, Miles turns to her family for much-needed support to get through her overwhelming feelings of devastation, confusion, and loss. Reprint.