Going Strong

Cheerleaders #24

by Carol Ellis

When the arrogant, untalented Robinson Ladd joins the cheerleading squad without trying out, the other squad members are outraged, and Olivia decides to find out why Coach Engborg wants Robinson on the team.

Genres: Young Adult

284 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1986

About the author

Carol Ellis is an American author of young adult and children’s fiction. Her first novel, My Secret Admirer, was published in 1989 by Scholastic as part of their popular Point Thriller line.

She went on to write over fifteen novels, including a few titles in the Zodiac Chillers series published by Random House in the mid-1990s, and two titles in The Blair Witch Files series for young adults, published by Bantam between 2000 and 2001.

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

The cheerleaders are forced to add a new member, the state senator's son who can't even do a stag leap! The horror! Full recap: https://cheerleadersrecaps.wordpress....

[Sarah Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

* Ardith is blackmailed into putting a seventh cheerleader on the varsity squad, a boy called Rob who didn't get through the initial tryouts. He's shit, and the squad have to do dumbed down routines. Everybody is pissednoff but they can't do anything about it, until his father - a senator- realises what's going on and makes him quit.
* Walt messes Olivia about a bit, but she now likes David Duffy, even though he kept asking questions about how Rob got on the squad.
* Rob was a total prick, and even tried to get Sean thrown off the squad!
* Hope got fired from her job for refusing to do overtime.
* Hope's parents decided they liked Peter even though he's not Chinese.
* Patrick and Jessica started dating.

[Judy Tarver · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not very good. The new squad storylines are so much different than the first and original squad. They have changed everything up too much with the new squad.