Gym Candy by Carl Deuker (313 pages)
What would you do to become the best athlete on the team – the star, the go-to-guy, the playmaker? Mick Johnson has the talent to be the best, but he lacks the self-confidence. One game-losing play leads him to a world of performance-enhancing drugs. He tells himself he’ll only use them to make first-string on the team, or that he’ll stop as soon as the season starts, but those are only lies. Once he starts, the feeling of being so powerful and unstoppable is so wonderful that Mick continues using illegal drugs to boost his play. What will the consequences be if his coach or his friends discover his secret?
Miss Simer’s Rating: ***
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Mitch’s life has a foundation that screams FOOTBALL! His
dad was a football player and taught Mitch how to play from
the day he was born. Mitch grows up playing in football
leagues till he reaches high school. At that time, football
was his life, but he takes it to a new level. He has to
have what it takes to be the very best he can. Mitch went
overboard when he starts taking steroids a.k.a. Gym Candy.
This book is a sports-based and has a theme that says don’t
do drugs. It’s an enjoyable book for football fans and
sports lovers.