The Cheer Leader Author:Jill McCorkle Up until that summer at Moon Lake, Jo Spencer was the kind of girl who knows what to be and what to do -- the cheerleader -- the straight-A student, popular and cute. Enter one Red Williams, who has been around -- older, more experienced, utterly different from all Jo has ever known. The swirl of changes that lazy North Carolina summer bring... more »s, the accelerating pressure to be what Red desires, as well as what Jo's friends and family expect, spin her out of control. "The coming of age rituals of a Southern town in the late 1960s and early 1970s -- the seemingly trite made suddenly startling -- here take on a memorable clarity of definition in this remarkable first work of fiction by a talented young novelist." (Publisher's Source)« less