The Cheerleader (Point Thriller) [Paperback]

Caroline B. Cooney (Author)

Book Description

Series: Point Thriller | Publication Date: December 1991

Cheerleaders are beautiful, popular and exciting - girls that Althea longs to be. But Althea is nobody - she gets no phone calls, shares no laughter and has no friends. Then one day she meets him, a vampire who offers to make her a cheerleader in exchange for a simple bargain.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Point (December 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 059044316X
• ISBN-13: 978-0590443166
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 3.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,733,005 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Cheerleader By Caroline B. Cooney, January 22, 2002

A Kid's Review

This review is from: The Cheerleader (Point Thriller) (Paperback)

Caroline B. Cooney writes ,in The Cheerleader, a thriller about a girl who would do anything to be popular and when she gets the chance she doesn't want to give it up, but does she?

A lonely junior girl would do anything to be popular like the freshman Celeste. Celeste is pretty, has many friends, and is on the cheerleading squad. She agrees to an evil scam to bring Celeste to a vampire she meets in the tower of her house, so then she can be popular like her. She agrees to bring Celeste to the vampire. What will happen? Althea starts getting weird feelings about what he is going to do to Celeste so she can be popular. Will it work or is it just an evil scam?

This book made me realize, be happy with what you have and not to do something crazy to get what you want. If you want something bad enough, just wait. It will come someday!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good book!, June 14, 2005

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Bookworm Jessie - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Cheerleader (Point Thriller) (Paperback)

This book is about Althea. She lives in a house that people say is haunted. It is, there is a vampire living in the dark tower of her house. She makes a deal with him that if she brings him people then he will make her popular. She is really happy being popular, but when she realizes what he does to the people she offers him, she feels bad about it. She has a party and asks him to leave her alone but he says she has to give him someone else. She tells him that she will give him a sign to which person he can have, but she accidentally gives him the sign to take her best friend that she was just starting to become friends with again. She decides not to do it anymore and says that she doesnt need him to make her popular anymore and he says ok, see if you can last a day, you do need me to be popular but find it out the hard way.... Althea goes through one day without his powers making her popular and she realizes she really doesnt have any friends and needs him. But to be popular, theres a price to pay, giving him the souls of unsuspecting people, and she just cant stand it much longer. Read the book to find out what she does in the end to solve this problem and live her life without destroying the lives of others.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Cheerleader~, March 1, 2005

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R. Lidguerre - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Cheerleader (Point Thriller) (Paperback)

"She was a nobody. Alone and ignored. She wanted what they had. Althea wanted to be a Cheerleader. Which meant popularity. To be noticed, to have friends, and possibly a boyfriend. She would do anything it takes.."

I thought it was ok, the whole high school cliche seems to be overly done in this though.. Like I don't think it's like this anymore in high school, but I could be wrong ;)

The ending was nice, but it could have tied up some lose ends. Overall it was ok.