Praise for The Geek Girl’s Guide to Cheerleading:
“This novel is contemporary, laugh-outloud funny, and positive.”
Florence H. Munat, VOYA
“Sweet, funny, and heart-warming, The Geek Girl's Guide to Cheerleading truly makes you want to cheer!”
Elizabeth Scott
Also by Charity Tahmaseb and Darcy Vance
The Geek Girl’s Guide to Cheerleading
Read the book VOYA calls contemporary, laugh-outloud funny, and positive.
When self-proclaimed geek girl Bethany Reynolds becomes the newest member of the varsity cheerleading squad, she realizes that there's one thing worse than blending into the lockers: getting noticed. Who knew cheerleading was so hard? Well, at least there's a manual, The Prairie Stone High Varsity Cheerleading Guide. Too bad it doesn't cover any of the really tough questions. Like:
How do you maintain some semblance of dignity while wearing an insanely short skirt?
What do you do when the head cheerleader spills her beer on you at your first in-crowd party?
And how do you protect your best friend from the biggest player in the senior class?
Bethany is going to need all her geek brainpower just to survive the season!
Also by Charity Tahmaseb
The Fine Art of Keeping Quiet
1st Place: 2015 International Digital Awards, Young Adult Novel
Sometimes staying silent is the biggest lie of all.
Sophomore Jolia does the one thing no one expects from the girl who has perfected the art of keeping quiet.
She joins the speech team.
Jolia can’t confess the real reason–not to her best friend, her new teammates, or even to crush-worthy rival Sam who offers to coach her in secret.
Keeping quiet might be the easy way out, but when what Jolia doesn’t say starts to hurt those around her, it might just cost her a best friend, her spot on the team, and even Sam.
But she isn’t the only one with a secret. It’s going to take words–her words–to make things right.
If only Jolia can find them.
The Fine Art of Holding Your Breath
3rd Place: 2015 International Digital Awards, Young Adult Novel
MacKenna’s mother died when she was a baby, a casualty of the first Gulf War. Now seventeen, MacKenna has spent her life navigating the minefield of her dad’s moods, certain of one thing: she is destined to follow in her mother’s combat boots. But when she pursues an ROTC scholarship, she finds herself at war before even enlisting.
Her father forbids her from joining the military, inexplicable considering he’d raised her to be a “warrior princess.” MacKenna turns to her grandmother—who arms her with an ammo crate containing her mother’s personal effects from the war. Hidden in the crate’s false bottom is a journal, one her mom stashed there hours before her death.
While MacKenna untangles the secrets of her parents’ tragic love story, her own life unravels. Dad’s behavior becomes erratic, her best friend grows distant and even hostile, and a boy from her past returns—with a life-threatening secret of his own.
If ever a girl needed her mother, it’s now.
The pen might be mightier than the sword, but are a mother’s words strong enough to slice through years of hidden pain? Can those words reach through the battlefields of the past to change MacKenna’s future?
Also by Darcy Vance
Less Than Three
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Sometimes <3 means like. Sometimes <3 means love. Like the emotions it represents, sometimes <3 gets complicated.
Fifteen-year-old Summer Day has a plan for the perfect school vacation until her mom drops the M-bomb on it. She wants Summer to do something ‘M-eaningful’ this year.
Could anything be more meaningful than gossiping with best friend Madison or hanging out with perfect boyfriend Brady? Summer skirts her mother’s demands by promising to construct a website – then launches a secret blog instead.
But when the most annoying boy in the universe keeps showing up in embarrassingly intimate situations, Brady grows jealous, and Summer turns to her blog readers for help. They devise a plan but everything backfires when the boy she thought she'd ALWAYS HATE reveals he knows the stories behind the stars, the lyrics to all of Summer’s favorite PaperKut songs and the s’mores-lined path that leads straight to her heart.
Copyright
Dating on the Dork Side
Copyright © 2015 by Charity Tahmaseb and Darcy Vance
Published by Collins Mark Books
Cover design copyright © Aaron Andersen
Cover art copyright © by Creativeye99/iStock Photo
This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.
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