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My Mother the Cheerleader. by. Robert Sharenow. · Rating details · ratings · reviews. Acts of courage come in all shapes and sizes. In the tumultuous New Orleans of , thirteen-year-old Louise Collins finds her world turned upside down when a stranger from the North arrives at her mother's boarding-house. Louise's mother spends her mornings at the local elementary school with a group of women known as the Cheerleaders, who harass the school's first black. My Mother the Cheerleader. Rob Sharenow. HarperCollins, - Juvenile Fiction - pages. 6 Reviews. Acts of courage come in all shapes and sizes. In the tumultuous New Orleans of True, "My Mother the Cheerleader" is ostensibly a book written for young adults, in that it contains no graphic sex, no obscenities, and its 13 year old narrator is intended to draw us into a child's eye view of the world. But it's a book filled with very serious issues (racism, violence, alcoholism and abandonment) and rewards readers of all ages.
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