Here is what it was like to grow up in the 1950s in the years of ponytails, pajama parties, proms, and parking, when to be popular was important and when, if you were a girl, being important meant being a cheerleader. THE CHEERLEADER is a best-selling novel about the loss of innocence, the growth of passion, and the awakening of ambition.A classic.--PUBLISHERS WEEKLYOne of the truest portraits of an American girl ever written.--DETROIT FREE PRESSIt's heartbreaking at times, hilarious at others, and she's got it all down beautifully.--PHILADELPHIA INQUIRERIf future historians and sociologists are ever impelled to find out what it was like to be a high school student in America at mid 20th century, they will need go no farther than THE CHEERLEADER for documentation and enlightenment...Utterly honest, accurate, and sympathetic.--KANSAS CITY STARA devastatingly accurate portrait of the '50s.--LIBRARY JOURNAL

The Cheerleader

MacDougall, Ruth Doan

Literature & Fiction

Frigate Books

What happens when ex-cheerleaders grow up?For Snowy, the cute, blond cheerleader at Gunthwaite High School in the 1950s, did anything ever match the glory of those years?This is the story that the multitudes of fans of the best-selling THE CHEERLEADER, have clamored for, a story that new readers will respond to with equal eagerness. While chronicling Snowy's next thirty years, it explores the lives of her best friends, beautiful Bev and outspoken Puddles, and her first love, Tom. What happens when the Silent Generation grows up? SNOWY describes how she and her friends, who came of age in the security of the 1950s when roles were defined and accepted, develop in the next decades, their experiences unique and universal. Like THE CHEERLEADER, this sequel is straightforward, touching, disturbing--and very funny.THE CHEERLEADER has been called a classic.

Snowy: A Sequel to THE CHEERLEADER (The Snowy Series, #2)

Contemporary

And what happens next? This is the question that readers of the best-seller The Cheerleader and its sequel, Snowy, have been asking, and now they can discover the answer in Henrietta Snow. New readers will relish a satisfying novel complete in itself. "Our generation," Snowy says, "is 'the disappeared.' We've dropped out of sight between our parents' generation--'The Greatest Generation'--and the baby boomers. Remember how we were called 'The Silent Generation'? Nobody knows about us." But here they are, Snowy, Bev, Puddles, Tom, Dudley, and all the Gang from Gunthwaite High School, turning fifty and then-eek!-sixty. How do they reshape their dreams and their lives? Henrietta Snow is the third title in The Snowy Series; at this time there are five titles in the series. All titles in the series are available here on amazon.com, and are sold separately.

HENRIETTA SNOW

United States

On the surface, it seems that Bev is living happily ever after. Her marriage to her high-school sweetheart is unconventional but suits her, and she has found success in her chosen profession.Appearances can be deceiving.This fourth novel in the Snowy Series is Bev's Book, told entirely from her point of view. It picks up where the third novel, Henrietta Snow, left off, with Bev's announcement that she and her husband, Roger, are going to renew their marriage vows. Bev and Roger have been living apart for twelve years. After the euphoria of their decision to get back together, Bev tries to face the reality of this prospect, while at the same time she must try to deal with career decisions and, even more important, a surprise with tremendous impact.The Husband Bench explores love in its various forms-pure and complicated, selfless and selfish, serious and comic.

The Husband Bench or Bev's Book (The Snowy Series, #4)

The Fourth Sequel to The CheerleaderI'm a Maine native, a born Maniac.-Jean Pond Cram, aka Puddles.Puddles may have been born in Maine, but where are her real roots? She spent her teens in New Hampshire and her married life in South Carolina. Has she established roots in these other states? Or has she felt like a displaced person all these years?The most uninhibited of The Cheerleader's three friends, Puddles is widowed now and working at two jobs in South Carolina (nurse and cheerleading coach). She appears to be settled down for the rest of her life. Normally intrepid and sure of herself, she finds that uncertainty starts with the death of her mother, a complicated milestone for daughters. Concern about her father galvanizes her, and their trip to visit Maine relatives will become her progress to adventure, an island, a castle, hard decisions, and rebirth.Puddles is just as hilarious as when she chased Snowy around a 1950s Woolworth's with giant underwear.-from the foreword by Ann V. Norton

A Born Maniac, or Puddles's Progress (The Snowy Series #5)

Ruth Doan MacDougall

The Cheerleader (The Snowy Series, #1)

MacDougall

Ruth Doan

The fifth sequel to the best seller THE CHEERLEADER. Site Fidelity: an ornithology term for the return of birds to the same place each year. It is 2008 and the Great Recession is looming, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are vying for the Democratic presidential nomination, and the winter is hard, especially on people who aren't as young as they used to be. Twenty-three years ago, Henrietta Snow―known as Snowy―and her husband bought a general store near her hometown in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire. Ever since his death two years after, she and her daughter, Ruhamah, have been running the store. They recently bought a second general store in a neighboring town, and now Ruhamah wants to acquire a third. Scared, Snowy wonders if Ruhamah wants to rule a general-store empire. What Snowy wants is another site, a fresh start. She hankers for what she calls a Maine-style Bali Ha'i, an island she has visited with her friend Puddles, where the scenery is "the ever-changing ocean, not the motionless mountains." Is this longing for change a sign of aging? How can she leave the responsibilities that are tying her down?

Site Fidelity (The Snowy Series #7)

Product Description And what happens next? This is the question that readers of the best-seller THE CHEERLEADER and its sequel, SNOWY, have been asking, and now they can discover the answer in HENRIETTA SNOW. New readers will relish a satisfying novel complete in itself."Our generation," Snowy says, "is 'the disappeared.' We've dropped out of sight between our parents' generation--'The Greatest Generation'--and the baby boomers. Remember how we were called 'The Silent Generation'? Nobody knows about us." But here they are, Snowy, Bev, Puddles, Tom, Dudley, and all the Gang from Gunthwaite High School, turning fifty and then-eek!-sixty. How do they reshape their dreams and their lives?HENRIETTA SNOW is the third title in The Snowy Series and is in its Second Printing. About the Author Ruth Doan MacDougall is the author of sixteen novels, including the seven titles in the popular The Snowy Series. She and her husband are New Hampshire natives and residents.

Henrietta Snow (The Snowy Series, #3)

About the Author When Ruth Doan MacDougall was born in Laconia, New Hampshire, her parents brought her home from the hospital to a chicken farm in neighboring Belmont. Her father, Daniel Doan, had taken up chicken farming after Dartmouth, the idea being that he could both raise chickens and write. As he later joked: I even thought the plan was sound! The income wasn t enough to support a family, and when Ruth was three the Doans moved to Laconia, where Dan got a job at a manufacturing company.Dan had to give up farming, but he didn t give up writing. Ruth remembers falling asleep each evening listening to what she later would call a literary lullaby, the sound of his typewriter as he wrote at night. By the time she was six, she had written her first story and knew that she too was a writer.After graduating from Laconia High School, Ruth attended Bennington College from 1957 to 1959. She then transferred to Keene State College to join her husband, Don MacDougall. They graduated together in 1961. Ruth s novels include: The Snowy Series: The Cheerleader Snowy Henrietta Snow The Husband Bench, or Bev s Book A Born Maniac, or Puddles s Progress A Gunthwaite Girl (a novelette) Site Fidelity Lazy Beds First published in 1973, The Cheerleader became a national best seller. It was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, optioned by Twentieth Century Fox, and made into an NBC sitcom pilot. Since then it has been called a classic and a favorite book. Readers wanted to know What happened next? and thus the sequels of Ruth Doan MacDougall's Snowy Series have taken the characters from the 1950s into the twenty-first century. The Cheerleader was featured in the Coming of Age article in the January February 2011 issue of Bookmarks magazine. It was one of five 1950s-era novels chosen; the others were The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, The Risk Pool by Richard Russo, and A Boy s Own Story by Edmund White. Ruth s other novels are: The Lilting House The Cost of Living One Minus One Wife and Mother Aunt Pleasantine <br. The Flowers of the Forest A Lovely Time Was Has by All A Woman Who Loved Lindbergh Mutual Aid One Minus One was republished in 2013 in Nancy Pearl s Book Lust Rediscoveries series. Ruth s short stories have appeared in Redbook magazine and have been winners in the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project. Her articles have been published in Publishers Weekly, theWashington Post, and New Hampshire Magazine. She has reviewed books for the New York Times Book Review, the Christian Science Monitor, Newsday, and other newspapers. She is a member of the New Hampshire Magazine Council of Advisers. Like her father, she is a recipient of the New Hampshire Writers Project s Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2006, Keene State College gave her the Alumni Achievement Award. Product Description LAZY BEDS, the latest title in Ruth Doan MacDougall’s Snowy Series, continues the stories of Snowy and Bev as they weather this century's Great Recession. Snowy is worried about the financial health of her three small stores, while Bev, owner of a well-known real-estate agency, is finding that real-estate sales have essentially ceased. Snowy and Bev share their adventures and challenges in equal measure, but Puddles, and many of the friends that readers have come to enjoy, have not been neglected. In LAZY BEDS, readers will catch up with the Gang they first met in THE CHEERLEADER―still going strong after all these years! What's a "lazy bed"? A home gardener, planting potatoes, might use the "lazy bed" method that avoids the more intensive forms of garden labor but still produces impressive results.

Lazy Beds (The Snowy Series #8)

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