What In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle did for girls high school basketball, We've Got Spirit does for cheerleading.

Jo Spencer is a girl who knows what to be and how to be it-straight-A student, cheerleader, May Queen, popular and cute and virginal, and in perfect control. But halfway through her first year in college in the early seventies, her carefully normal life explodes and she comes completely undone. In The Cheerleader, Jo Spencer looks back, as if she were watching reruns of old syndicated TV shows, to figure out what happened. Ordinary chance has dumped Sam Swett, age twenty-one, in the Marshboro, North Carolina, Quik Pik in the middle of a murder. Sam has shaved his head, given away all his belongings except his typewriter; he's drunker than he's ever been and running as fast as he can from his upper-middle-class upbringing. For the next twenty-four hours, Sam is propelled straight into the very core of this small Southern town as it sorts through the facts.

Alicia's brother Danny and his friends are always putting down cheerleading, but she is determined to change their minds.

"Engaging images accompany information about cheerleading basics. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--

Though it began as a way to cheer on players of other sports, cheerleading has grown to become a popular competition in its own right. Readers (Grades 3-5) will find out how cheerleaders train to develop difficult routines and compete against each other. They will also how to perfect their own cheerleading abilities and find out what to expect when trying out for a cheerleading squad.

The cheerleaders are beautiful, popular and exciting, everything that Althea wants to be, then one day she meets a vampire who offers to make her a cheerleader in exchange for a simple bargain.