Cheer Up
Love and Pompoms
Oni Press · Print & ebook · August 10, 2021
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!
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- Who it’s for
- A layered YA romance comic with fandom energy and a steady emotional pulse.
- Genres
- YA LGBTQ+ Comics, YA Romance - LGBTQ+, Sports Stories
- Published
- Oni Press, August 10, 2021
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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.
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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.
Why It Clicks
A layered YA romance comic with fandom energy and a steady emotional pulse.
Come here for
- queer teen romance
- comic-book warmth with a serious edge
Expect
- romance-first momentum
- a sustained, immersive read
Where it sits
| YA LGBTQ+ Comics | 76% |
|---|---|
| YA Romance - LGBTQ+ | 61% |
| Sports Stories | 40% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- YA LGBTQ+ Comics
- YA Romance - LGBTQ+
- Sports Stories
- Authors
- Crystal Frasier, Val Wise, Oscar O. Jupiter
- Publisher
- Oni Press
- Published
- August 10, 2021
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- YA LGBTQ+ Comics