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The Cheerleader

by Caroline B. Cooney · 1992

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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.

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Soon Althea has everything she desires: beauty, friends, success. But Althea wants more - and she'll do anything to get it...

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young adultchildrens
Length
short · 179 pages

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