The Rah Rah Girls

Rating:
Summary: A pleasant mediocrity.
Review: Good-natured but one-dimensional story about a a lazy-ish girl from a ridiculously driven family who decides, partly to drive her parents nuts, to try out for the cheerleading team. There's one pretty powerful scene involving the family's misguided attempt to take her out to a celebration dinner, but the rest of the book seems to wallow in shallowness. The characters just aren't fleshed out enough...no one will stick with you after the book is closed. The story is so lightweight, in fact, that I'm surprised Cooney wrote it, given her knack for complex, offbeat, memorable characters. Go figure.

Rating:
Summary: A pleasant mediocrity.
Review: Good-natured but one-dimensional story about a a lazy-ish girl from a ridiculously driven family who decides, partly to drive her parents nuts, to try out for the cheerleading team. There's one pretty powerful scene involving the family's misguided attempt to take her out to a celebration dinner, but the rest of the book seems to wallow in shallowness. The characters just aren't fleshed out enough...no one will stick with you after the book is closed. The story is so lightweight, in fact, that I'm surprised Cooney wrote it, given her knack for complex, offbeat, memorable characters. Go figure.