LitPick Review
Five-foot eleven. Freckled. Flat as a surfboard. Peyton Grady sees her role on the varsity cheer squad as the only thing keeping her off the social sidelines at wealthy Beachwood Preparatory Academy. It's her umbilical cord to cool-and it's constantly in danger of getting cut. As a base, it's Peyton's duty to be stepped on-literally-by cheer queen Lexie Court. So when Lexie hatches a fierce hazing campaign against the frumpy new girl, Peyton has no choice but to support her flier. Soon the pranks become sadistically cruel, even criminal. Suddenly, Peyton has more to lose than her new-found Alpha celebrity. Will she gamble her entire future for "the good of the squad"?
Opinion:
Debbie Reed Fischer's second novel, Swimming with the Sharks, is an easy-to-read page turner filled with many laugh-out-loud moments. Right from the beginning, I was hooked. I loved how easy it was to connect with the narrator, Peyton, and how I could feel every emotion she experienced. Fischer did an amazing job describing everything that was going on, making it feel as if you were really there. Swimming with the Sharks taught a very important lesson in friendship and relationships. This book was a good way to teach readers that hazing is wrong and that you should always do the right thing.
