Ruby Flips For Attention (Ruby and the Booker Boys #4)

I’m Ruby Booker and here’s the plan: My BFF,Theresa Petticoat, and I are going to be the bestflipping, dancing drill team in Bellow Rock! Allwe have to do is learn some moves. My brotherMarcellus isn’t a cheerleader, but he’s supersmart—and I’m super-sure he’ll teach me howto flip. Then I’ll teach Theresa, and who knows?Maybe this cheerleading thing will land us in thespotlight!

Derrick Barnes is the author of several acclaimed books, including the Ruby and the Booker Boys series: BRAND-NEW SCHOOL, BRAVE NEW RUBY; TRIVIA QUEEN, THIRD GRADE SUPREME; THE SLUMBER PARTY PAYBACK; and RUBY FLIPS FOR ATTENTION, published by Scholastic. Barnes’s YA novel THE MAKING OF DR. TRUELOVE was an ALA Quick Picks selection, and has been hailed by the New York Public Library as one of the 100 Best Books for the Teen Age. Derrick and his wife, Tinka, reside in Kansas City, MO, with their three sons. Illustrator Vanessa Newton trained at the Fashion School of Technology and the School of Visual Arts. She and her husband live in Newark, New Jersey.