Cheer Life
- ISBN-10
- 1630211893
- ISBN-13
- 9781630211899
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-03-23
- Author
- Kristy Thomas
Description
Rebecca is much like any other teenager girl. She is beautiful, full of energy and she wants to be a cheerleader when she grows up. Having been on cheer for most of her life making the varsity team was a dream come true but it is what she must do to maintain that dream that starts to break Rebecca's spirit. The girls must weigh in every week and must maintain a certain weight in order to cheer. If they are over weight the things they are willing to do to their bodies to lose the weight within the twenty-four hours given by their coach is unspeakable. When Rebecca finds herself starved, high on meth and running in the middle of the night the only thing she wants is her mother. She calls for her, cries for her and by the time her mother finds her in the middle of the street Rebecca's dreams of cheering are over along with her life. It is not until the near end that we realize that it is the spirit of Rebecca that is telling us this tragic story. In the end she visits her own funeral and she always comes to see her mother who was the strongest woman that she knew and now she has to find the strength to move forward without her little girl.
