Dominique Moceanu: An American Champion

An autobiography written the year before the Mag-7 won gold in Atlanta. Not much new is covered in here, though Dominique now has quite a different perspective on those young years. I'm not sure how much to believe as I read it. I'd say it's for 5th-6th grader, though now they have no clue who she is. OTOH, you'll like it if you are a gymnastics fan.

Cherie Bennett's Club Sunset Island #3 Tori's Crush

Here's Cherie Bennett's attempt to with Sunset Beach what Francine Pascal did to Sweet Valley High when they created Sweet Valley Twins. Earlier (and eventually to be recapped) we found out that Allie and Becky aren't the terrors that Sam thinks they are and that deep down they really like her. They are summer camp jr. counselors at the country club where they meet Dixie, Southern Belle, and Tori, tomboy. This book is narrated by Tori. She's suddenly interested in boys and one of the boys in the next set of counselors up from them (There's way more levels of counselors to keep straight) who's dating the camp mean girl, who's the cousin of Sam's rival. What a coincidence! Tori gets a make-over from the other girls, which she may or may not like. Speaking of the other girls, are there really camps that allow 14 year old counselors to wear string bikinis? That seems odd. Her parents try to fix her up with a friend's son, who sounds dorky. A mass amusement park trip is organized where the girls may or may not have dates in a fairly realistic jr. high set up. The boy is actually one of the quiet counselors that they like but never talk to. But the older boy doesn't realize that this could be a date and shows up with his girlfriend. How embarrassing! Then and I'm not making this up there's a synchronized swimming showdown. Of course Tori wins, ends up with quiet boy, but is thrilled that the older boy did sorta notice her. Show of hands if you think, if the series continued that she would decide that quiet boy is a better friend then boyfriend and end up with the older boy?