Gym Candy

The Story Gym candy By Carl Deuker is a story about a kid named Mick Johnson and his friends Deshawn and Drew. The Point of view that Carl tells it in the third person. Mick is playing high school football at Foothill high school in his town Shilsole with his friend Deshawn and Drew. Mick is a running back and he is trying to beat the Senior Drager. Drager is a really good Running back and Mick wants to be better than Drager. So Mick starts working hard in the Gym to try to be better than Drager. One day When Mick is working out at the gym Drager decides to come in and hit Mick in the chest multiple times so that his chest is sore for the next few days. Micks father works at a radio station and his radio station just bought a fitness center in town and Micks father said that he gets to go workout their for free. Mick goes and works out at the fitness center and meets a personal trainer named Pete helps Mick get stronger by working out with him and then decides to give Mick some Gym candy. This so called gym candy is something that mick knows he shouldn't do but he wants to become better than Drager and be the best on the team. This Gym candy Mick is taking is called

This is a story of baseball and how it is a team sport. The book relates with the title by showing how this boy named Sandy Comstock that plays on the Grantville Raiders and has a big game coming up. It was against the Newtown Raptors. He wanted to beat them and become one of the best teams. By the time he knew it he ended up on the Newtown Raptors team and he was going to play is old team. It was kind of like a baseball turnaround.

The realistic setting of the novel starts out in a small town down south called Little Bend in Colorado but progresses to up north in a well-known town called Dover in Vermont. The main character, Cody Laredo, has a perfect life. He’s a great quarterback on his high school football team, he might be able to get a full college scholarship, and he’s dating the prettiest and smartest girl in town, but all his luck changes. He hurt his leg preventing him from playing sports, and his girlfriend, Clea, moves away to a boarding school in Vermont. When he thinks all his bad luck is over, he finds out that Clea went missing in Dover. Cody’s life gets turned

     This book takes place in and around the Chicago area. Gale and Brian are both trying to get the spot as the Chicago Bears starting halfback. They both are rookies.

He wasn’t doing well in the weight room and decided to look for a trainer at the local gym for a change. He met a man named Peter Volz and he proposed an offer. He told Mick that he could deal steroids to him in exchange for a little cash. Mick took a little dose and he saw the results on the football field and took more and more. His friends suspected that something was up, but Mick wouldn’t let his secret out. Until his best friend Drew caught him in the locker room stall in the act. He confronted him, but Mick threatened him, and pointed a gun at Drew. Drew was yelling and he revealed what steroids was doing to him. Mick then pointed the gun at himself, and pulled the trigger. Everything went black then, but woke up in a hospital. He eventually transcended to a rehab center to talk to a therapist, and he had to stay there for two weeks. Every night in that rehab center, he couldn’t help but freak out, and that is where his story

Steroids have a long-term, negative effect on the human body. These effects range from cardiovascular problems to mental and psychological issues such as rage and anger problems. Steroid use has been linked to increased alcohol consumption, marijuana use, cigarette smoking, and narcotic use (Buckman, Farris & Yusko, 2013). Many athletes may not be aware of the lasting effects steroids can have because all they are worried about is their performance, not their health.

In the book Michael ohre has hit rock bottom, But he finds a good family to live with. He starts studied to get good grades and starts practicing football to get better at sports and then he gets into college and then gets in the NFL and later wins a super bowl.

Later on Mick start’s to see commercials about how to gain muscle and decides that what he want’s to do. To pay for the protein powder and vitamins Mick gets a job with his dad. At Mick's dad’s work you could get a free membership to a local gym called Popeyes, there Mick meets a guy named Peter Volts. Something was off about Peter so Mick decides not to go back. Later on in the school’s weight room Drager is back and started making fun of how much Mick was lifting and Drager gets in his face and then Drager and Clark beat up Mick. This makes Mick work even harder and he even goes back to Popeyes Gym. That’s when he realizes Peter is not weird after a hard workout Peter tell’s Mick that he can get him steroids if he want’s them. But Mick tells him no. As the workouts start back at school a kid named Dave Kane is pretty good and Mick is scared that he take his

The novel, The Other Wes Moore, written by Wes Moore, compares and contrasts the experience of two African American males who were born in Baltimore, Maryland; the novel explores the divergent life paths of these two men who come from similar cultural backgrounds and environments. The author, Wes Moore, begins the novel by explaining about his childhood and the death of his father which impacted his family at a very young age. The author contrasts this with the childhood of the “other” Wes Moore, whose father was not present during his childhood. The novel transitions to the adolescent experience of these boys, describing how schools and the environments of their neighborhoods influenced their transitions from children to adults. The author

-The book setting is in New York City at the beginning and at the end of the twentieth century. This story is about burglar from Ireland, Peter Lake, and a young rich woman, Beverly Young. I think this would be a good book for me because I like the whole concept of the time changing and Peter trying to save the dying love of his life.

The compelling novel, Tangerine, written by Edward Bloor is a book packed with secrets and creating memorable friendships. The main character, Paul Fisher moves to Tangerine, Florida because his parents invested in his older brother, Erik Fisher’s dream to become an excellent football player. With problems and difficult situations him and his family encounters, Paul has trouble adjusting to life in Tangerine County, Florida. Paul views the world differently behind his ‘coke bottle’ glasses and discovers that Tangerine is a very unusual place. Paul doesn’t know the reason why he is legally blind and has flashbacks that slowly reveals what is the story behind the thick glasses. Paul joins the soccer team at Tangerine Middle School, and with

I am sure we have all seen or heard about taffy. What I would think would come to mind to most people when I would say something regarding taffy might be something concerning saltwater taffy. I love saltwater taffy. It seems that it is not in great supply around here. The only place I know of is somewhere like the cracker barrel. Needless to say I never go to cracker barrel, and it is a little more than I feel comfortable spending on candy. So I find myself resorting to a childhood favorite, laffy taffy. It is sold everywhere, and it is very inexpensive. I really started to like it when I played baseball as a kid. After the game I would always try to pump mom or dad for a few cents to stock up. It never made it home. I would somehow eat my entire entire stockpile. Whoever came up with the idea of putting jokes inside the wrapper is a very rich man. I could not help but to try to unwrap one more. The way the jokes where printed on the wrapper was very smart too. They would put one joke half way on the wrapper so it made me want to know the end of the joke, genius really.

sometimes be unable to control their emotions of mostly anger. This is called "roid rage". After use of steroids some users may have to go through behavioral therapy to keep their anger under control.

Along with the physical problems there are also mental 54reactions associated with the usage of steroids. This drug becomes very addictive and damaging to the mind. It causes violent episodes which an athlete can claim a legal insanity defense to it. They get so wrapped up psychologically that the negative effects doesn't matter to them. Research has also discovered that steroids cause psychotic side effects sometimes referred to as "roid mania". Along with these are wild aggressive, combative behavior, depression, listlessness and delusions during and after performance. Even though the

The main character that the book is based on is Drew Robinson. Drew, also known as True, is a sophomore in high school in Queens, NY and loves the game of basketball. He is arguably the best high school basketball player in the area. True’s best friend, Lee Atkins, is a senior at the school. Since he is in his last year of high school basketball, all Lee wants is to make a run in the playoffs and win the championship game. True’s mother is Darlene Robinson. Darlene got a job in California, thanks to a man named Mr. Seth Gilbert, who saw True playing an AAU basketball tournament. Mr. Gilbert wanted him to attend Oakley High School in CA to play for Coach DiGregorio. Mr. Gilbert believes True is the best player and that he will make it into the NBA. So, Mr. Gilbert helps True meet some people who can help him become sponsored. When True goes to play basketball by himself at Morrison Court, he keeps seeing a ghost man. He finds out that the ghost man is Urban Sellers, a basketball player who ruined his career before he was even out of high school. Seeing him made True not want to make the same mistakes. Callie Mason is on the girls’ basketball team and True has a crush on her. He even sneaks into the gym to watch the girl’s team practice from time to time.