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Varsity #3
Practice Makes Perfect
Behind every squad, there's a story.
It's spring semester at Northside High and the girls of the JV cheer squad are trying out for next fall. The pressure is on as Chloe, Devin, Kate, and Emily practice Varsity-level stunts amidst the drama of best friends, boyfriends, and frenemies. When jealousy and competition threaten to tear these besties apart, can the girls band together to dominate at tryouts?
Book 3 in the Varsity series has more best-friend drama, boy trouble, and, of course, sideline spirit!
It's spring semester at Northside High and the girls of the JV cheer squad are trying out for next fall. The pressure is on as Chloe, Devin, Kate, and Emily practice Varsity-level stunts amidst the drama of best friends, boyfriends, and frenemies. When jealousy and competition threaten to tear these besties apart, can the girls band together to dominate at tryouts?
Book 3 in the Varsity series has more best-friend drama, boy trouble, and, of course, sideline spirit!
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2014
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February 17, 2020
This is the last book in the series and all the girls have something going on drama wise leading up to tryouts.
Emily becomes friends with a girl from work Zoe who seems to be one of those people who just like telling others what to do, once Emily decides to not do what Zoe says she drops her.
Chloe and Emily have a falling out because of Zoe and maybe the pressures of both deciding to try out for the Varsity cheer squad. They make up in the end. Chloe also coaches two middle school friends helping them prepare for tryouts, I can totally see her being a cheerleading coach when she's an adult. She is also dealing with her crush on one of Emily's brothers.
Devin has to decide to continue with cheer or go back to gymnastics, her story was the most interesting in my opinion.
Kate doesn't really seem to have a story she's just there.
The ending of the series is good, but I kind of wish the books followed the girls to graduation. Also there should have been a glossary of cheer terms in the back of the book.
Emily becomes friends with a girl from work Zoe who seems to be one of those people who just like telling others what to do, once Emily decides to not do what Zoe says she drops her.
Chloe and Emily have a falling out because of Zoe and maybe the pressures of both deciding to try out for the Varsity cheer squad. They make up in the end. Chloe also coaches two middle school friends helping them prepare for tryouts, I can totally see her being a cheerleading coach when she's an adult. She is also dealing with her crush on one of Emily's brothers.
Devin has to decide to continue with cheer or go back to gymnastics, her story was the most interesting in my opinion.
Kate doesn't really seem to have a story she's just there.
The ending of the series is good, but I kind of wish the books followed the girls to graduation. Also there should have been a glossary of cheer terms in the back of the book.
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July 19, 2022
I read this when I really wanted to be a cheerleader, now all I can remember is that I wanted to have a friend group like the girls did.
September 5, 2014
Just okay but it does wrap up the series. Unlike the other two books there isn't much actual cheerleading in this book and the girls are really just prepping and then trying out for cheerleading. The ending kind of annoying since I would never understand why any of these girls would want to be on JV again, I was a cheerleader and besides freshman year I never wanted to be on JV since they don't get to do half of what the Varsity squad did. Also, Devin who was a great gymnast who used to train all of the time and had the opportunity for a scholarship at a gym who has led people to the Olympics gave that up to be a cheerleader? And also two senior guys interested in freshmen girls? Yeah okay...
Overall the series was cute and good but the plots were bit on the shallow and cliché side, and honestly if it wasn't for the girls' ages it could have been a Middle grades book series instead of YA, I can't really see how anyone over the age of 14 could truly enjoy it. A better and more mature cheerleader series would be the Non Blonde Cheerleader series by Kieran Scott.
Overall the series was cute and good but the plots were bit on the shallow and cliché side, and honestly if it wasn't for the girls' ages it could have been a Middle grades book series instead of YA, I can't really see how anyone over the age of 14 could truly enjoy it. A better and more mature cheerleader series would be the Non Blonde Cheerleader series by Kieran Scott.
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