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Cheerleading Can Be Murder by  Carissa Ann Lynch Release Date: April 5th 2016 Limitless Publishing Summary from Goodreads: Getting on the cheerleading squad is hard enough without a psycho on the loose... For Harrow High freshman Dakota Densford, life should be easy. All she has to worry about is talking to cute boys and remembering her locker combination. But when cheerleading tryouts draw near, she learns the cards are stacked against her—spots on the varsity team are limited. Dakota faces her competition head-on, but when her life is threatened, that takes the competition to a whole new level. High school is never easy, and freshman year is off to a rough start… Between Dakota’s uniform being ripped up and masked vandals trashing another girl’s house, everyone is suspect. To complicate matters further, Dakota has a thing for Andy McGraw, but she finds him locking lips with another girl. The harassment continues, and when Dakota finds suspicious flyers inside h

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