I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader
By Kieran Scott
246 pages + 17 pages (first chapter of sequel)

i saw this on the list of new book in catherine's (or was it andrea) post a few weeks ago. i though it was be sissy and girly and pointless. just read the title. does it really not sound something like her wishing she was blonde, becoming a cheerleader with the popular girls who were all blonde, who make fun of her cuz she's not blonde? ok, the book was kind of like that, but thats not the oint. it was really good. and it WASN'T sissy.

i loved how the first page of the book started with a page called 'the first day' and was an interesting page in the book. it got me interested. (they got me, hook, line, and sinker with it)so, annisa gobrowski is a pixie-cut brunnette girl, who moves to a new school. shes moved many times before, so it didnt matter. well, at this school it really did. first mistake. EVERYONE at sand dune high school was blonde. she felt intimidated right at the doorway. annisa probably had no chance of making decent friends. everyone has their own little cliques. well, everyone except bethany. the only thin that brightened her first day was some cute guy who had apparently followed her to school, cuz he was "only a block away" oya, and on the first day, she broke the most popular girl in the school's nose. darn.

everybody hates her (not just because she's blonde) and nobody wants her on the cheerleading squad. but annisa had been part of the cheerleading squad back home, so she knew what it was like. well, not what it was like at sand dune. anniasa's former squad was just all about fun, since they sucked. they couldnt get any routines and she was the only one that could do a back tuck. the sand dune squad was about competing, if not winning. she desprerately wanted to be on the squad. so did mindy, a friend she made.

annisa does manage to make friends and find love. she didnt dye her hair blonde to fit in. i loved this book. it got really funny at times. it seemed totally real, (except for the fact that everyone was blonde) which made it better. the sequel (Brunnettes strike Back) i have put on hold. (teehee) i definetly recommend this book. i recommend it to my language to, since she was a cheerleader before. i mean, award winning cheerleader. her team once won a national award. sounds stupid, but still its cool.


quote from the book:


"there were natural blondes, peroxide blondes, highlighted blondes, and frosted blondes. golden blondes, white blondes, ash blondes. blondes with brown eyebrows, and blondes with olive skin. there was even an asian girl in the front row with her short blonde hair pulled back in two neat ponytails. my gaze darted around the room from blonde to blonde to blonde to blonde. a britney-clone looked at me and snickered."

**this review can be published in a teen newsletter
*** would have been 15 volounteer hours

--Jessica--