The Cheerleader (The Snowy Series #1)
The Cheerleader (The Snowy Series #1)
Author: Ruth Doan MacDougall
Desc: 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. p/pThe 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.