Ginger Snaps Award-winning by Cathy Cassidy (author)

Author/Illustrator

Cathy Cassidy

Cathy Cassidy’s stirring teen novels have a huge following. Their optimism, realism and empathy explain their popularity, especially with girls, and are perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson.

More about Cathy: “I was born in 1962 in Coventry (scarily ancient, I know!). I wrote my first picture book for my little brother when I was eight or nine. I loved making comics, too – pages and pages of picture stories, features and competitions. I’d sell my homemade comic to a friend for 5p, then claim it back and sell it again to someone else,they didn’t have photocopiers back then!

I went to Art College in Liverpool, then got a job as fiction editor on the fab and legendary Jackie magazine. Later, I married my boyfriend Liam, went back to college and trained to be an art teacher. I taught in a Coventry secondary school for a few years, which I loved, then moved to Scotland with Liam to start a family.

My kids are 13 and 14 years old now, and the four of us live in a cottage in the Galloway hills with sheep and cows for neighbours. As well as writing books, I am the agony aunt on Shout magazine and sometimes teach art in the local primary schools, which is great fun and keeps me sane. (Well, maybe!)

I’ve been veggie for 30 years, and was vegan for 8 of them – a chocolate-eating vegan, like Storm! I love old clothes, old toys, cars, books. We have three cats, two rabbits and a mad, hairy lurcher called Kelpie (the model for Leggit in my book Dizzy).

I love my family, I love living in the middle of nowhere and I love my work. Of all my jobs, writing has to be the best – it’s the perfect excuse to daydream, after all!”

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1. JapaneseStar
   on 2 May 2015

   I love it the tension between Ginger and Shannon is unreal, and Sam sooooo cute! I don’t like Shannon very much but Emily sounds really nice! Definitly recommend it’s a brill book, thanks Cathy!

   4 out of 5

2. moonbeam22
   on 31 December 2014

   If you liked the Jacqueline Wilson ‘girls in love’ series then this is the author for you. This book follows the life of a teenaged bulling victim as she learns the unspoken rules of high school and is forced to chose between love and popularity. Although well written and realistic I found this book to soppy for my taste.

   4 out of 5

3. natashakrywald
   on 8 March 2013

   good book

4. stupendousteen
   on 4 March 2013

   i love this book and have read it about 4 times

   5 out of 5

5. kkitt-kkatt
   on 13 April 2012

   i really identified with ginger. cathy is such a good author

6. AmyXx
   on 7 March 2012

   I really enjoyed and loved this book. Even though i read it awhile ago i can still remember it.

7. kicky105
   on 6 March 2012

   This book is great – Ginger ends up practically having to choose between her best mate and a boy – how will it end up – read it and see – it’s worth it!

   5 out of 5

8. la1397
   on 3 March 2012

   Ginger snaps was so exciting to read, because it combined both romance and a story of acceptance. I read it a long while ago now, but the characters will forever be inprinted in my memory, because it was such a unique tale. And I just loved the idea of blue lemonade, YUMMY! :D

9. mutemath4ever
   on 3 March 2012

   This is a sad story about bullying and friendship. It is a good story and well written. I really enjoyed reading it. I would recommend for ages 11+

10. ToxicTiger
    on 1 March 2012

    Ginger has always been a loner, but when she makes friends with Shannon, things change. Now a boy is threatening their friendship. A FAB book!

    4 out of 5

11. aeroaeromonkey
    on 1 March 2012

    Amazing. I love the blue lemonade.

    5 out of 5

12. smileitsfriday
    on 1 March 2012

    This is my favourite Cathy Cassidy book. Ginger Brown. Yeah, that’s her name. She also has hair the colour of carrots. In Year 7, she meets Shannon, and she doesn’t care about the hair!They become best friends and know eachother inside-out (sort of) but Ginger left out a tiny detail, she was bullied and no one used to like her :( * * * * *

13. indigobeam
    on 1 March 2012

    Gingersnaps was perfect in every way. It has a message behind it, a good plot and interesting characters. Cathy Cassidy put effort into the personality of each character, not just the main one. This is an outstanding book that I highly recommend.

    5 out of 5

14. Cutiepie4477
    on 23 February 2012

    I loved this book! At first I thought Shannon was a really nice person but at the end I could so see that she was not best friend material. Sam on the other hand!.... I fell for him straight away! A great book! You’ve got to read it!

    5 out of 5

15. CarribbeanCuba
    on 13 September 2011

    I haven;t read this book but i would like to. I would read the sampler but im not because i am currently reading Lucky Star by Cathy Cassidy. And at the end of it it has a sampler of ‘Ginger Snaps’.