pp 240 hardback with paper dust jacket in excellent condition; no edgewear; clean pages; bright yellow board with purple title on bright pink spine; Grades 5-8Marylin knows that, as a middle school cheerleader, she has certain obligations. She has to smile as she walks down the hall, be friends with the right people, and keep her manicure in tip-top shape. But Marylin is surprised to learn there are also rules about whom shes allowed to likeand Benjamin, the student body president, is deemed unnacceptable. But maybe there is a way to convince the cheerleaders that her interest in Benjamin is for their own goodmaybe shell pretend that shes using him to get new cheerleading uniforms. Kate, of course, finds this ludicrous. She is going to like whom she likes, thank you very much. And she just so happens to be spending more time than ever with Matthew Holler. But even a girl who marches to the beat of her own guitar strings can play the wrong notesand are she and Matthew even playing the same song? Shes just not sure. So when Matthew tells Kate that the schools Audio Lab needs funding from the student government, she decides to do what she can to help him get it.