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The ' 80 were bonk for their plosion of pulpy YA series , and one of the most popular -Cheerleaders- has a very strange origin . While Caroline B. Cooney is well - know for herYA horror - thriller books , the longest - run serial publication that she started is herCheerleadersseries . The serial follow the trial and tribulations of high school cheerleader , include friendly relationship troubles and rivalries , romance , and heartbreak .
It ’s hard work writing any series , let alone one that has dozens of installments . To that ending , publishing companies often apply a stalls of writer to keep a series go , rather than risk the production of the series being slowed down . Even with that , though , the ScholasticCheerleadersseries of the 1980s used that john in the extreme - and found a quite a little of success doing it .
From The Maze Runner to The Hunger Games , some YA novel adaptations for movies and TV were surprisingly better than the generator material .
Even though Caroline B. Cooney started the series , she did n’t finish it . In fact , she only wrote four Book out of 47 in total . TheCheerleadersseries is a strange one in that it is an ongoing series handled by a revolving cast of writer . While it ’s not unusual for a new author to take up the mantle of a long - course script series , especially if the original writer go by away , it ’s a little more rare for multiple writer to tackle a serial from the start . It ’s even more rare for so many authors to work on a series .
There are many book like Vampire Academy that explore old and new idea that would work to conquer fan of these fantastical and dark tarradiddle .
Cheerleadershas 15 authors in total who have written for the serial . Some of them have written only one book , including the fabled Christopher Pike , who wroteGetting Even , the second book in the serial publication . Other writer have had more substantive character write the series , such as Jennifer Sarasin , Lisa Norby , and Diane Hoh , who wrote eight , eight , and six books , severally . While they ’re not needs the deepest Scripture , it ’s a testament to the skill and cohesion of the authors that each one has been capable to pick up where the former writer left off , or to return to the series without the tone dropping off or tone change much .
phone number of Books
Titles
Caroline B. Cooney
4
Trying Out , Rumors , All the Way , Saying Yes
Christopher Pike
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1
receive Even
Lisa Norby
8
Feuding , Forgetting , Hurting , Scheming , come Back , mouth Back , Telling Lies , take up Over ( with Patricia Aks )
Jennifer Sarasin
Splitting , Cheating , Living It Up , Taking Over , Together Again , act Up , Getting Serious , Here to detain
Diane Hoh
6
Flirting , Betrayed , Staying Together , pull Together , Proving It , Spring Fever
Jody Sorenson
2
Playing Games , Waiting
Carol Stanley
In honey
Anne Reynolds
Taking peril
Patricia Aks
commence Over ( with Lisa Norby )
Carol Ellis
Looking sound , Going Strong , Showing Off , fight down Back
Ann Steinke
5
Rivals , Stealing Secrets , lessen in Love , tell No , induce It All
Susan Blake
make It
Leslie Davis
3
Moving Up , All or Nothing , venture
Judith Weber
Changing Loves , Dating
Vivian Schurfranz
Overboard
The Cheerleaders Series Was Wildly Successful
One Book Came Out Every Month For Four Years
Considering there are almost 50 books in the serial , it ’s needless to say theCheerleadersseries was successful ; book series do n’t get four dozen entree if they ’re not . It ’s not inevitably the strongest writing , nor the deep , but it ’s exactly the form of frothy , catty , romance - filled teen drama that lecturer of a certain age eat up up . With a pulpy , easily - write Scripture serial likeCheerleaders , having multiple authors save have in mind a newfangled rule book could be released every calendar month . WithCheerleaders , a new al-Qur’an was released every month ( only once was a month jump ) from January 1985 through November 1988when the serial wrap .
Cheerleaders Were A Popular YA Topic In The ’80s & ’90s
Cheerleaders Were Especially Big In The Horror-Thriller Space
Those read the titles of the aboveCheerleaderslist might be confused , thinking of a unlike serial publication . That ’s not a surprise . Cheerleaders were a huge topic of YA books in the ' 80s and specially in the ' 90swhen they started to become the case of YA horror - thriller serial . Along with the more teen romanceCheerleadersseries aviate by multiple authors , there was alsoR.L. Stine ’s wildly popularFear Street Cheerleadershigh school series .
Even more confusingly , Caroline B. Cooney herself had another series , this one a vampire horror trilogy known as the Vampire ’s Promise trilogy , that focus on a cheerleader . The first book of the series was even titledThe Cheerleader , leading to many understandably meld it with her earlierCheerleadersseries . That trilogy was a title under the Point Horror series , which , just likeCheerleaders , see to it multiple authors , though it was less a rummy series and more of a broad label .
