Chanel goes on a clothes shopping spree with her mother's credit card until the credit trail catches up with her, just as the Cheetah Girls get an offer from a professional manager.
When Dorinda's birth sister, Tiffany, tracks her down, Dorinda worries that the Cheetah girls won't accept her because she's white.
This bind-up contains four stories from 'The Cheetah Girls' series - 'Showdown at the Okie-Dokie', 'Cuchifrita, Ballerina', 'Dorinda Gets a Grove' and 'In the House with Mouse'.
Galleria Garibaldi and Chanel Simmons meet Dorinda Rogers at Fashion Industries High School and become instant friends, and in order to pursue their dreams of a musical career and earn extra money, then team up with Anginette and Aquanette Walker to forma singing group of their own, which they call
Eve has grown up in a decidedly unconventional family, one of seven multi-racial children with different fathers and a mother who raises them her own way. It is a family without men, a family of children whose various talents are always at odds with the rest of society.When Eve is eight, her moth...
Drezform, our new homeroom teacher, has trouble pronouncing my last name, like all the other teachers I’ve had since kindergarten. “Galleria Gareboodi?” “Here!” I yell out, smiling and raising my hand in the air like I just don’t care. “It’s Galleria Gar-i-bald-i.” This boy in front of me turns a...
Chapter8 It’s “five after three” and I’m trying not to “see what I see.” My foster mother is standing right outside my school, right next to troublemaker Teqwila Johnson and her posse! What is Mrs. Bosco doing here, anyway? Something must be wrong. I’m ’bout to bounce, but Mrs. Bosco sees me befo...
I can’t believe I’m going to meet my sister—my real sister, you know what I’m saying? I don’t know whether I’m more thrilled or more scared! “Coming through!” I yell politely, so this guy coming at me on a ten-speeder can leave me some room on the sidewalk. He’s zooming past me, like he’s a werew...
Well, finally our long wait is over. Stepping out of Ma’s car as we pull up in front of Big Momma’s house, I notice that some of the kids hanging out down the block stop to stare at us. This one boy, with red kinky hair and freckles, starts walking toward us, waving. “Who is that?” Angie asks. “I...
FASHION 101: DON’T FALL FOR FAKE FENDIS Ever since I can remember, I have wanted to be head of the class. Perhaps my leadership skills come naturally to me since I’m the oldest of four kids and my mother died when I was six years old. During the difficult years that ensued, fashion became my refu...
“How tall do you think that thing is?” I mumble to Dorinda, as we both gaze in awe at the gold duck statue in the lobby. “About fifty feet,” Dorinda says, eyeing the duck statue like it’s gonna start quacking. “They musta had a lot of artists with gold records to lay this thing!” “Elevator is tha...
I’m still too scared to come out of my room. I can hear my mom talking with Aqua in the hallway. Aquanette Walker is one of the “Huggy Bear” twins (that’s my and Bubbles’s secret nickname for them) from Houston, Texas. We met them at the Kats and Kittys Klub barbecue last summer. They were singin...