The Cheerleader

by Caroline B. Cooney

Book Overview

When you make a deal with a vampire, there's no chance to change your mind. Or is there? Althea is a nobody who wants to be somebody. She wants to be noticed, to have friends, to be part of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 059044316X
• ISBN13: 9780590443166
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

good book!

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.

Excellent

Not only is this book an excellent vampire mystery, it also relates some very real feelings of teenagers in protagonist Althea. All she wants is to be popular - what's so wrong with that? Then she makes a deal with a vampire who can grant her her wish, but only if she will bring him innocent victims. Will she make the right decision and go back to being unpopular? Deadly Offer is gripping and creepy. I would recommend it to anyone who is a mystery or a vampire fan.

Awesome Story!!!

This was an awesome book! I read this for my book report and it blew me away! I love the ways Cooney had described the simplest of things such as the texture and the look of the vampire's skin. She showed how Althea felt throughout the entire book. It was awesome! I recommend this to all vampire-interested readers.

What a great book!!!

I just barely got this book and I finished it in one single day! I could not put it down. Alot of the feelings she was feeling were things that I would be able to relate to. I simply loved it. This book has the power to make you happy make you frustrated and make you angry or anything else that this character, Althea, was feeling. I said if before and I will say it again, this was a really good book!

The Cheerleader By Caroline B. Cooney

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!