Nice fluffy young adult read--perfect to balance out the steady diet of research papers I've been tangling with. Our school librarian reminded me this is only the first in a series from this author--I will probably read the rest. It's chick lit. I like it. ( )

I never would have read this on my own but my best friend gave me the sequel for my birthday so I had to humor her and read the first in order to read the second. I was pleasantly surprised despite not having anything in common with the characters at all. ( )

Most of my friends are cheerleaders and aren't blonde, so that's why I read this book. It really pulls you in, and makes you want to do the kind of stuff with your team.
4Q, 2P; Cover Art: Okay.
This book is best suited for middle and highschoolers.
It was selected because the reviewer is a non-blonde cheerleader.
Grade: 10th
KH-AHS-NC

not my usual type of book, but my friend told me to read it (BTW I HATE CHEERLEADING. but prank wars are so much fun!!!) and it was okay. ( )

Annisa Gobrowski feels like she just landed on another planet. When she shows up for her first day at her new high school in Florida, she's the only non-blonde in sight. Add that to a killer first day - in which she's labeled a brainiac back-stabbing klutz who also managed to break the head cheerleader's nose - and things are off to a very rocky start. Especially since all Annisa wants is to be a part of the award-winning cheerleading team...

Non-Blonde Cheerleader was a lot of fast-paced fluffy fun. I admired Annisa for standing up to the cheerleading squad even when they have it out for her, and I was really impressed that the novel showed actual consequences to not studying for your Calculus tests (seriously, I hate books where people do all kinds of other stuff and never have to study for anything...). There was a lot of training and 'sports' stuff, romantic entanglements, and a prank war... All of the things my high school life was nothing like - but that are awfully fun to read about.

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