Cheerleading, a title in the Science Behind Sports series from Lucent Books, is a 100 page report on what body parts are in motion while performing cheers and dance moves.  The first chapter gives an historical overview of the development of cheerleading into the competitive sport it is today.  The final chapter covers some psychological aspects of cheer, including crowd management, stress, and positive speaking.  There’s nothing spectacular about this book.  It fits a need if one exists in showing that cheerleading is a physically active sport.  But there aren’t many references to research studies or data from scientific journals to make this very authoritive.  This reader would actually encourage students to supplement this with much more web research.