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The football field is a battlefield. 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. 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