Get ready to amaze with these cheerleading skills and stunts. Learn basic arm positions, jumps, and tumbling moves. Instructions for each skill and stunt are accompanied with visuals to ensure each move is done safely and accurately. The tips throughout will give you all the information you need to put together a routine that will leave crowds amazed.

What exactly does a cheerleader do? How did cheerleading begin? What are the most important things a cheerleader needs to know? From tumbling and chanting to motions and stunts, learn all about the basics of cheerleading. Also find out about safety, eating right, uniforms, everything else that goes into this sport that continues to grow in popularity.

When cheerleading tryouts begin, Claudia Cortez, upset over the fact that only popular girls get chosen for the squad, sets out to change the way tryouts work. Unfortunately, her friend doesn't agree with her actions, as she also wishes to become a cheerleader.

Kylie Jean Carter has been waiting for three years to become a Little Dazzler--a junior cheerleader for the high school's Dancing Dazzlers--so she can cheer for her brother's high school football team.

When Lissa Marks injures herself trying a daredevil stunt she finds it frustrating sitting on the sidelines, but the real shock comes when she finds out she won't be allowed to compete in the regional tournament.

Tam is new to the cheer squad, and from the first day of practice Maren, the squad captain, seems determined to make her look unprepared and incompetent--but with the backing of a new friend she finally finds the courage to stand up to the bullying.

Now that she is graduating from middle school, Brooke Perrino's parents would like her to attend a private school, but it may mean giving up cheerleading, and her friends are all going to Greenview High School.

Brooke Perrino really wants to be captain of her school cheerleading team, but she is having trouble with eighth-grade algebra and suddenly she is beginning to doubt her ability to handle the pressure.

Keisha Turner and Frankie Dixon used to be best friends, but then they had a horrible fallout. No matter--when Frankie receives a threatening note, Keisha goes undercover on the school's Spirit Squad to solve the mystery and stop Frankie's foe.

My First Graphic Novel These books are the perfect introduction to the world of safe, appealing graphic novels. Each story uses familiar topics, repeating patterns, and core vocabulary words appropriate for a beginning reader. Combine the entertaining story with comic book panels, exciting action elements, and bright colors and a safe graphic novel is born. A useful chart will teach the reader how to follow the graphic format, and the discussion questions...