The Cheer Leader A Novel 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 brings,... more » 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