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Deuker, Carl.
GYM CANDY
New York : Houghton Mifflin, 2007
IL YA
ISBN 061877713X
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 Mick Johnson lives and breathes football. But when lifting weights and taking vitamin supplements do not give him the edge he wants, he turns to steroids. Along with becoming bigger, faster and stronger, Mick must also deal with „roid rage, acne, and depression. When he realizes he?s cheated his way to stardom, he tries to quit but with dangerous results. (Florida Teen Reads nominee, 2010)
SUBJECTS:     Football -- Fiction.
                        Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
                        High schools -- Fiction.
                        Schools -- Fiction.
                        Steroids -- Fiction.
                        Family life -- Washington (State) -- Fiction.
                        Washington (State) -- Fiction.

 
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