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The Cheerleader (Point Thriller)

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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!

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.

"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.

This book kept me on the edge of my seat, but did not make it so I could not go to sleep. Althea is just a girl who is never noticed. When she makes a deal with a vampire she is instantly popular, she also makes the cheerleading squad, to replace the girl she gave to the vampire. She thought it would end there but now the vampire wants another victim. Who will she give and when will it end? As the the story goes on Althea realises that she has to do the vapires every wim. Is it really more the vamires falt than hers? If she had never started it, she wouldn`t have to stop it now.

The Cheeleader by Caroline B.Cooney was a great story on the thoughts and feelings of teenage boys and girls.The story revolves around a freshman in highschool named Althea that is invisible to other kids.She comes across a vampire in her house that promises her popularity for her some of her new friends' energy.This thriller gives a very good lesson on how to make friends the right way.

The Cheerleader was an excellent book which tells the story of Althea who meets a vampire in her new house, who promises it all, for the exchange of people she knows. But when he takes Jennie (her old best friend) she starts to worry about what she's done. When Becky (her best friend) takes ill, she thinks he's taken her, and almost gets rid of him, until she finds out she's ok. She relaxes, but soon she's unhappy, when she goes through one day without being popular, she wants it all again, at the expense of a new friend, she won't submit, saves her friend, and traps the vampire. She's now back to being unpopular, she's lost her best friend, her boyfriend, her other friends, but she's FREE. I feel sorry for the fact that all the happyness she had was created by a vampire, and losing people she loves so much, including her best friend Becky. It's a very sad tale about the horrors of being alone, and you wish that she gets her popularity back.

I read this book many years ago, and I still think about it from time to time. It features a creepy, well-crafted story that both teens and adults can appreciate. Whenever I pull "The Cheerleader" out to re-read it, I'm immersed in the storyline just as much as I was the first time I read it. I highly recommend it!

This was an eccelent book for people of all ages. My mom even thought it was good! This book is simply about a girl who meets a vampire and he feeds off of peoples doubts and fears. I highly reccomend this book and i'm only 12!!

Tht Cheerleader was a really interesting book. I have never read anything like it. It had very good parts, and feelings...but to much of it was unreal. I think it would be good for a junior high age group.

The cheerleader is very good and exciting.The main character Althea (your average outcast,invisible) a sophmore in high school who disperately wants popularity and gets popularity by giving the vampire, she ran across hidden in her house, victims. The vampire makes you want to puke with his personality and looks!