Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms -- Crystal Frasier, Paperback

2021 Goodreads Choice Award Finalist
2021 New York Public Library Best Books for Teens
2021 Cybils Award Winner
2022 GLAAD Media Award Winner
2022 Lambda Literary Award Finalist

A sweet, queer teen romance perfect for fans of Heartstopper and Check, Please!

Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her senior year of high school who's under pressure to join the cheerleader squad to make friends and round out her college applications. Her former friend Bebe is a people-pleaser--a trans girl who must keep her parents happy with her grades and social life to keep their support of her transition. Through the rigors of squad training and amped up social pressures (not to mention micro aggressions and other queer youth problems), the two girls rekindle a friendship they thought they'd lost and discover there may be other, sweeter feelings springing up between them.

Author: Crystal Frasier
Publisher: Oni Press
Published: 08/10/2021
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.08w x 0.33d
ISBN: 9781620109557
Audience: Young Adult

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2021
Publishers Weekly 06/21/2021
Foreword 06/26/2021
Booklist 07/01/2021 pg. 54
School Library Journal 08/01/2021 pg. 93
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2021
Shelf Awareness 08/13/2021

About the Author
Crystal Frasier is a girl from small-town Florida who now has twenty years' experience writing for comics, fiction, and games. She has contributed to major brands like Pathfinder and Dungeons & Dragons, as well as small-press projects and anthologies, but she got her start self-publishing transgender-focused webcomics. Today Crystal is the proud mama of two energetic corgis, Calamity and Adamant.

Val Wise is a cartoonist originally from Clearwater Beach, Florida. He's contributed to a handful of anthologies, including Dates! and Wayward Kindred, as well as projects like Rolled & Told. He currently lives in the Southern U.S. with his husband, two best friends, and two talkative cats named Biscotti and Ciabatta.