The Cheerleader

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First published in 1973 and 1974 by Putnam and Bantam, The Cheerleader was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, optioned by Twentieth Century-Fox, made into an NBC sitcom pilot, and became a best-seller beloved by generations of readers. The reprint of this classic coming-of-age novel features a foreword by English professor Ann V. Norton, who writes, "As Snowy grows in mind and heart, she realizes she must develop her own self. That this realization happens in a small town in the 1950s to a cheerleader, symbol of...
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Overview

First published in 1973 and 1974 by Putnam and Bantam, The Cheerleader was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, optioned by Twentieth Century-Fox, made into an NBC sitcom pilot, and became a best-seller beloved by generations of readers. The reprint of this classic coming-of-age novel features a foreword by English professor Ann V. Norton, who writes, "As Snowy grows in mind and heart, she realizes she must develop her own self. That this realization happens in a small town in the 1950s to a cheerleader, symbol of a girl's simultaneous success and subordination, makes it all the more powerful. The Cheerleader transcends its setting to portray a young person's timeless yearning for a full and satisfying life." Snowy, a sequel to The Cheerleader , has recently been rereleased by Frigate Books. Fans have designed a website devoted to Ruth Doan MacDougall's work.
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Editorial Reviews

Kansas City Star
In earlier novels Ruth Doan MacDougall has shown that if you bring an uncommon mind and talent to the commonplace, what you are likely to get is not the commonplace but the uncommon. Now she has used that mind and talent to deal with one of the major communal democratic experiences shared by Americans--going to high school...I can't recall a novel in which high-school-age youngsters appear which seems to reproduce so naturally their way of talking and in fact their whole demeanor and style of living. Nor have I recently encountered a more appealing young heroine than Snowy...If future historians and sociologists are ever impelled to find out what it was like to be a high school student in America at mid 20th century, they will need go no farther than THE CHEERLEADER for documentation and enlightenment...Utterly honest, accurate and sympathetic.
Philadelphia Inquirer
It's heartbreaking at times, hilarious at others, and she's got it all down beautifully.
Library Journal
A devastatingly accurate portrait of the '50s.
Detroit Free Press
One of the truest portraits of an American girl ever written...Everything works in MacDougall's book. She captures the times, the attitudes, the emotions with the authority of one who was once there and knows the route back by heart.
Publishers Weekly
A classic.
United Press International
It isn't often that you get to the last page of a book and are aware that you have just finished a real reading experience. But that's how you'll feel when you finish THE CHEERLEADER. A terrific book. Really terrific.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780966335200
  • Publisher: Frigate Books
  • Publication date: 1/1/2010
  • Pages: 288
  • Product dimensions: 5.44 (w) x 8.36 (h) x 0.84 (d)

Meet the Author


Ruth Doan MacDougall was born and grew up in New Hampshire, where she now lives with her husband, Don. She is the author of ten other novels, including The Cheerleader, a national best-seller. She is also the co-author with her father of 50 Hikes in the White Mountains and 50 More Hikes in New Hampshire.
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The dance had begun. The gym was darkened now, and sawdust-wax had been sprinkled on the floor, but the smell of hot sweat from the basketball game still lingered. Down the darkness echoed record-player music. Henrietta Snow, known as Snowy, stood with another of the JV cheerleaders in the doorway. She was fifteen years old. She wore dungarees and her white cheerleading blouse, its collar turned up and its starch softened, and she wore her long dark-blond hair brushed into a ponytail that looked like an upside-down question mark. She said, "How disgusting!" But Jean Pond, who was known as Puddles and also known for saying out loud what everyone else was thinking, said, "Maybe we should've been bawling in there, too. Maybe it's our last game, too." Snowy felt sharply sick. "Shut up," she said. "Please shut up." She glanced at her left hand, where today's date had been stamped by the boy at the desk outside the gym. March 4, the stamp said clearly. Soon it would begin to smudge. March 4, 1955. The JV cheerleaders had changed out of their uniforms during the Varsity game. They couldn't take showers; the visiting basketball team was using the girls' locker room, and they changed in the girls' gym office and clogged their sweat with Cashmere Bouquet talcum powder. So they had no real excuse for being in the gym office again after the Varsity game, but sensing drama, they all had wandered back. They were rewarded. The last basketball game of the year, and the Varsity cheerleaders were weeping, hugging each other, sobbing. There were six seniors on the Varsity squad; they wept for the end of glory. And the two juniors, who would be Varsity cheerleaders again next year and probably co-captains, wept partly for the end of this squad but mostly because they were expected to. The JV's sympathized, and the JV captain, a senior, burst into tears, and so did the twin who was very emotional. The gym office was a little room jammed with megaphones, lockers, the gym teachers' desks, square-dancing records, basketballs, volleyballs, and a bulletin board of game schedules, clippings, and jokes. A full-length mirror reflected the clinging group of girls, the Varsity in short green jumpers, the JV's in their dungarees and white blouses, Snowy standing wide-eyed watching. Now in the gym the record player sang: "Earth angel, earth angel,/Will you be mine?/My darling dear,/Love you all the time." "Well," Snowy said, and she and Puddles strolled casually over to the bleachers, but they didn't sit down because this would make them seem too obviously waiting for somebody to ask them to dance. They stood half-turned from the dance floor, as if they didn't care, as if they were on the brink of dashing off to something far more exciting. There was, however, nothing in their world more exciting than this. The gym, in the basement of the main school building, was a sunken place, deeper than the basement classrooms surrounding it on three sides. The indoor windows high above were observation posts where kids out in the corridor would lean to watch gym classes or cheerleaders practicing or games or dances. A deep dark-brown sunken place. But to Snowy, it was where love might find her.
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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 6, 2007

    This Book is outstanding

    The book the cheerleader was outstanding! Showing snowy in high school life with Tom Bev and Puddles on her side. This book will make you want to read Book 2 and 3. i can't wait to read Book 3. this book is really amazing!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 12, 2005

    a coming of age book for all generations

    Although I grew up in the 70s and my daughter in the first years of the new millenium, we both loved The Cheerleader and both of us found lots to relate to. I guess the high school experience doesn't change much.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 6, 2004

    'Cheerleader' An Excellent Book for High Schoolers

    I am a high school senior and I just finished The Cheerleader.Never before have I read a book that captures the ups and downs of friendship,love,and sex during high school as this novel does.Although the story takes place in the 1950s,the themes are still very true today.I sincerely believe readers 15 and older will be able to identify with Snowy's quest to establish her own values and goals as she learns who she really is.And Snowy's relationship with Tom is so painfully realistic that I teared up remembering my first love.Snowy,Puddles,Bev and the rest of the Gang are real characters with real concerns that teenagers today have.Anyone in high school or college or anyone who grew up in the 50s will love this book.I can't wait to read the sequels!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 24, 2002

    Best book Ive ever read!

    I first read the Cheerleader in 1977. couldnt put it down. I have read it many many times sense and every time is like the first.This book holds your interst. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll feel every word. so glad I found this book agin.Cant wait for it to get here so I can read it many more times.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 28, 2002

    This is a great book.

    I love this book (The Cheerleader) I read it as a teenager and was looking for it for my daughters to read. I am so excited to find out there is a sequel! This book seems so real. You will not be able to put it down. It will stay with you and you will want to read it again and again!!!!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 20, 2001

    No Other Book Has Ever Had Such An Effect On Me

    'The Cheerleader' is definitely the best book i have ever read. I have never read a book that has me thinking about it sooo much after I finished reading it. Tom, Snowy, Bev, and Puddles were just like real people to me. I could picture them in my mind. And the way it ended just had me thinking about it over and over. Then I read it again and again. It is a wonderful thing to read a book like 'the cheerleader' i recommend it to everyone. And me being a cheerleader made it an even better book!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 14, 2000

    The Cheerleader

    I loved this book. One day in the library I was just searching for cheerleading and this came up so i put a hold on it. When it came i read and and couldnt put it down. I loed this book. It is one of my all time favorites. I heard there was as equal and put a hold on it at the library. It took a few months for it to finally come but it was worth it. I was sad when it ended cause I wanted to keep reading. I loved this book and i know you will too. read it! :) -Jenny

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 9, 2000

    Snowy

    I was thrilled to find this book in print again. I read it as a teen-ager and still love this book. I was also able to find the Sequel on a search for out of print books. It would be great if the sequel was also put back into print. I highly recommed both books. My two teen-age daughters also loved it.

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