| The Cheerleader | |
| Author: | Ruth Doan MacDougall |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Putnam |
| Release Date: | 1974 |
| Pages: | 288 pp |
| Isbn: | 0-9663352-0-1 |
| Dewey: | 813/.54 21 |
| Congress: | PS3563.A292 C48 1998 |
| Oclc: | 39368608 |
The Cheerleader is a 1973 coming of age novel by Ruth Doan MacDougall.[1]
Described on the author's website as "searchingly honest, achingly real, [recalling] all the joy, excitement, and pain of crossing the bridge from childhood to young womanhood in the Fabulous Fifties, when sex was still a mystery and goals were clearly defined--perhaps for the last time,"[2] it was first published in 1973 by Putnam and re-released in its 4th printing in 1998 by Frigate Books.
This is the first of five books in the "Snowy Series" ("Snowy: a sequel to The Cheerleader," "Henrietta Snow," "The Husband Bench, or Bev's Book," and "A Born Maniac, or Puddles Progress") following Snowy and "The Gang" as they continue through life.