ISBN: 0525423060 9780525423065

Category: Juvenile Fiction / Sports & Recreation / General

Page count: 425

<b>A Top Ten Best Fiction Book for Young Adults as Selected by the American Library Association</b><br> <br> <i>The football field is a battlefield</i><br> <br> There's an extraordinary price for victory at Oregrove High. It is paid on-and off-the football field. And it claims its victims without mercy-including the most innocent bystanders.<br> <br> When a violent, steroid-infused, ever-escalating prank war has devastating consequences, an unlikely friendship between a talented but emotionally damaged fullback and a promising gymnast might hold the key to a school's salvation.<br> <br> Told in alternating voices and with unapologetic truth, Leverage illuminates the fierce loyalty, flawed justice, and hard-won optimism of two young athletes.