OUTSIDE READING BOOK (highlight to read)

The book that I have read for outside reading is the book GYM CANDY. I have already finished the book because my parents made me get a book and read it. The book is about a boy who plays football for a Washington High School. The Mick’s (the main dude) father was a really good running back. He was Mr. Football in his high school. Went to USC and played running back, and then got drafted by the Chargers. But he didn’t play any games. The reason he told his son is that he sprained his ankle then came back to early and sprained it again and he couldn’t really play that hard anymore so they laid him off. But the real reason is because he was mean to the players and coaches, he got many DWI’s and he was always late to the team meetings.
So in 9th grade Mick was called up to play on Varsity. He wasn’t the biggest running back out on field but he was the fastest. Then during the next couple weeks he moved from the bottom of the depth charts to the second. But he was starting for all the special teams. Then one day the starter of the team got caught drinking and he was kicked off the team. So in the Championship game Mick was playing. They lost by six points and Mick was six inches away from the goal line.
He and his friends were saying that the man who stopped him was on the juice. So Mick wanted to get bigger so he started to lift weights. But he was thinking that he wasn’t going anywhere. So when he was at the club working out with his personal trainer Mick asked him about getting on the juice and he gave him some.
Then in the next season there was another dude who was playing running back who was pretty good. But Mick was better because he was a lot stronger and quicker. Every game when Mick was on the juice he broke a High School record. He got them to the Championship game again. But once again he got hit at the six inch line by the same dude. But instead of falling backwards Mick kept on moving his legs and knocked the player in to the end zone. They won the game.
But when he was on the juice Mick was feeling really depressed. So he picked up a friend who was on the Varsity team and brought him to a pond because he knew about Mick using the juice. Mick brought his dad’s gun, and when the friend was walking away Mick took it out and pointed at the friend. Then stopped and pointed it himself. Mick shot the gun and the bullet skinned his head. He didn’t die but he went to treatment.
And that is the end of the book.