Deborah Gregory

Galleria Garibaldi and Chanel Simmons meet Dorinda Rogers at Fashion Industries High School and then team up with Anginette and Aquanette Walker to form a singing group of their own, which they call the Cheetah Girls

Cheetah Girls #1: Wishing on a Star

Paul Mantell

Chanel's passion for fashion gets the best of her when she goes on a clothes shopping spree with her mother's credit card, until the credit trail catches up with her and she is forced to pay up. Original. 50,000 first printing.

Cheetah Girls #2: Shop in the Name of Love

In this premier book of the series, the girls meet at Fashion Industries High School, where they live in New York City. It’s the first week of school, and they become fast friends. They decide they want to beef up their cash flow. So, to earn some bucks, they form a singing group of their own.

Wishing on a Star

Dorinda has a difficult decision ahead when she is offered a chance to audition as a back-up singer for a superstar because, if she gets the job, she will have to leave her friends and family behind in order to travel with the show. Original.

Cheetah Girls #3: Who's Bout to Bounce, Baby

When the girls hear that singing sensation Kahlua is coming to town, they devise a plan to make their record heard, and when their plan works, great things happen for the Cheetah Girlz as they are given a record contract and sent to a meeting in Hollywood. Original.

Cheetah Girls #4: Hey, Ho, Hollywood

The Cheetah Girls are starring in a movie of their own on the Disney Channel in 2003. They're spicier than hot sauce and as cool as iced cappuccino. They outshine any diamond with their supa-dupa inner sparkle! Now see how it all began in the first books of the series starring Galleria, Chanel, Dorinda, Anginette, and Aquanette. Each bind-up features four Cheetah-licious tales about girls having guts, brains, courage, and friends (while flashin' some style and always shining from the heart).

Bind-up #1 - Books #1-4

Cheetah Girls, The: Livin' Large

"The Cheetah Girls will inspire all those kids who want to become singers like us. Can't wait for the movie!" -Destiny's Child, Columbia Records The Cheetah Girls have made it big in their own movie on Disney Channel. Now see how it all began as Galleria, Chanel, Dorinda, Anginette, and Aquanette find family, friends, fortune, and fame in four cheetah-charming tales. Anyone can do what they do . . . all it takes is a little growl power! Deborah Gregory is a contributing writer for Essence, Vibe, and More, and is widely published in many national magazines, including Seventeen, Us, Paper, and Entertainment Weekly. She lives in New York City.

Bind-Up #3 - Books #9-12

The Cheetah Girls Growl Power Forever! (Books 9-12, Bind-Up #3)

Chanel doesn’t want to wait until the Cheetah Girls strike it rich to earn enough to buy all the clothes she adores, so she starts charging on her mom’s credit card.

Shop in the Name of Love

Dorinda’s dance teacher tells her that she’s got what it takes to audition as a back-up dancer for the singing sensation Money Monique. This is Dorinda’s chance to really make it. But since Dorinda has always been the best dancer in the Cheetah Girls, she’s been the one to make up the group’s “phat” dance moves. If she gets chosen to tour with Money Monique, she’ll have to leave the Cheetah Girls and Mrs. Bosco, her foster mother, behind.

Who's 'Bout to Bounce?

The Civil War is at an end, but for thirteen-year-old Eulinda, it is no time to rejoice. Her younger brother Zeke was sold away, her older brother Neddy joined the Northern war effort, and her master will not acknowledge that Eulinda is his daughter. Her mettle is additionally tested when she realizes her brother Neddy might be buried in the now-closed Andersonville Prison where soldiers were kept in torturous conditions. With the help of Clara Barton, the eventual founder of the Red Cross, Eulinda must find a way to let go of the skeletons from her past.

Bind-Up #4

Cheetah Girls: Off the Hook!

Bind-Up #2 - Books #5-8

Cheetah Girls, The: Supa Dupa Sparkle!

The hip, contemporary paperback series for black girls continues, featuring a singing group of five feisty teens.

Woof, There It Is

The competition heats up at Fashion International High School. Bring it! Sashay, parlay! The design competition at Fashion International High School heats up as each design house struggles to produce its first—and hopefully award-winning—line. Tensions are cropping up in the House of Pashmina, and it’s not clear whether Pashmina and her best friends will weather the runway. They’d better scramble if they want to win a real shot at a fashion career and an all-expenses-paid trip to Florence! “A high-energy journey through the world of fashion high school as seen through the eyes of several feisty fashionistas. . . . Young readers will dive into Gregory’s vibrant mix of teenage realism, glamour, and fantasy.”—Essence

Catwalk: Strike a Pose

IN Catwalk, DEBORAH GREGORY creates a new YA series that takes her famously upbeat urban voice and combines it with the appeal of Project Runway and America’s Next Top Model. Catwalk follows Pashmina, Felinez, Angora, and Aphro, four best friends at Manhattan’s Fashion International High School who are about to enter the contest of their lives. Each year, students split up into Fashion Houses and compete to design, produce, and show fully original fashion lines. The winner gets a scholarship, a professional show, and a real shot at a career in fashion. Bouncy, smart, and nearly irresistible, Catwalk is a fierce introduction to a fashion world where fabulosity trumps waist size, and there truly is room for everyone.

Includes Three Novels: Catwalk, Strike a Pose, and Rip the Runway

Catwalk

The design competition at Fashion International High School heats up as each design house struggles to produce its first line, provoking tensions among the friends at the House of Pashmina.

Strike a Pose

The Cheetah Girls have been waiting forever for producer Mouse Almighty to have time for them to record their demo tape. When they find out that he's finally selected some songs for them to record, they're totally psyched. Are the Cheetah Girls ready to shine in the spotlight?

Cheetah Girls #12: In the House with Mouse

Now a Disney Channel original movie, the Cheetah Girls have one shot to show their spots. Galleria, Chanel, Dorinda, Anginette, and Aquanette find family, friends, fortune and fame in four cheetah-charming tales.

Cheetah Girls, The: Livin' Large!

It seems like Galleria and the Cheetah Girls have been waiting forever to record the demo tape that’s going to set the music industry on fire. They were all set to go last month, but then an accident put one girl on crutches and the Cheetahs’ dreams on ice. Once they’re all walking again, the Cheetahs set a date with their producer—but a four-legged problem is about to derail their plans. Galleria’s next-door neighbor has a pregnant dog, and she insists that Galleria’s pooch Toto is the father. This puppy paternity problem takes up all of Galleria’s attention, and the other Cheetahs start to fear that if they ever do get into the studio, their lead singer won’t be able to do anything but howl.

Oops, Doggy Dog!

Five young girls are ready to take the world by storm with their singing group, but in the meantime, they face the challenges of growing up.

Cheetah Girls #11: Dorinda Gets a Groove

After winning the talent competition at the Harlem School of the Arts, the Cheetah Girls have cred uptown and down. Dorinda, the most stylish Cheetah of all, thinks they’re finally on their way to music industry millions. But just when things are clicking for the Cheetahs, Dorinda’s home life threatens to come apart at the seams. Dorinda lives in foster care with almost a dozen other children, and even though Mr. and Mrs. Bosco aren’t their real parents, they’re the only family these kids have ever known. So when a mysterious man comes demanding custody of one of Dorinda’s brothers, she decides to fight back the only way she knows how: Cheetah style!

Deborah Gregory

Books

Your next favorite book is out there