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Fly Away

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After a member of her competitive cheerleading team is injured in practice, sixteen-year-old Marnie is asked to be a flyer-the most coveted role in cheerleading.

The Soar Starlings team has a real shot at the provincial championship, and Marnie has only a few weeks to prepare. But as she scrambles to polish her lifts and throws, Marnie's personal life begins to unravel. First, her boyfriend of two years breaks up with her, and then her best friend Arielle, captain of the Starlings, disappears during a team trip to Toronto. As Marnie struggles to adjust to being both a flyer and the team's new captain, she realizes that, to be a leader, you have to let go of old alliances to make room in your life for new ones.

This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don't like to read!

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    • School Library Journal

      April 1, 2011

      Gr 7-10-Marnie is given a coveted position on her cheerleading squad when another teammate is injured. While trying frantically to prepare for a championship competition, she has boyfriend issues, worries about her best friend's relationship with an older man, and must deal with her changing role on the squad. While in some ways a typical story dealing with changing relationships in the teen years, Fly Away features an interesting and different subplot revolving around Marnie's best friend's decision to drop out of her final semester of high school to focus on an art career. While characters are somewhat stock and two-dimensional, the book offers up few easy answers, leaving some issues to be resolved in readers' own minds. This short novel will appeal to reluctant readers and enthusiasts of nontraditional sports.-Natasha Forrester, Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR

      Copyright 2011 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:4.2
  • Lexile® Measure:610
  • Interest Level:4-8(MG)
  • Text Difficulty:2-3

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