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A Top Ten Best Fiction Book for Young Adults as Selected by the American Library Association The football field is a battlefield Theres 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 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 schools salvation Told in alternating voices and with unapologetic truth Leverage illuminates the fierce loyalty flawed justice and hard-won optimism of two young athletes