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We've Got Spirit : The Life and Times of America's Greatest Cheerleading Team

by James T. McElroy

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Traces a year in the life of Kentucky's Greenup County Musketeers, following the nineteen-member cheerleading squad from the 1997 meet in Orlando, Florida in which they became national champions, through their loss at the next year's competition.

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Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee – Grades 6-8 – 2002)

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Genres: Nonfiction, Kids, Sports and Leisure, Biography & Memoir
DDC/MDS: 791.6 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Movies, TV, Video Pageantry
LCC: LB3635 .M334 — Education Theory and practice of education Theory and practice of education School life. Student manners and customs
BISAC: SPO SPORTS & RECREATION General

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Languages: English
Media: Paper
ISBNs: 3
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Published: 1999
Genres: Nonfiction, Kids, Sports and Leisure, Biography & Memoir
DDC/MDS: 791.6
LCC: LB3635 .M334

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