2007, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
ISBN: 9780618777136
313 pages
Annotation: A highschool is determined to not let his father down. He resorts to taking steroids and suffers the side effects.
Summary: Mick Johnson is bound and determined not to fail in football like his father failed in the NFL. After come just short while playing he decides that the vitamin supplements he is taking is not enough so his trainer at the local gym gives him some 'gym candy'-steroids. Mick becomes stronger and better on the field but still suffers many of the side-effects of steroids. He becomes depressed, acne, and irritable. After it is discovered he is taking steroids he attempts suicide, but then worries if he will forever be tempted by the steroids.
Rank: 3 Stars-Good storyline, just not amazing.
