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Book Report On Gym Candy By Carl Deuker

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Carl Deuker lives in Seattle. What inspired Carl to write the book Gym Candy was he wanted his readers to see through the eyes of a football star, he wants to show the readers that how the football star got into doing drug to be better at football. Also to show people the bad things and also show the punishments of you using the drugs gets you. The theme of this book is that “Drugs changes people”. The reason this theme fits this novel is because in this book there is a boy named Mick Johnson he wanted to be the best football player ever played. Then he started to take gym candy also know as steroids. His moods changed, he started losing friends, he tried to commit suicide, and ruined his football career. Here is a quote from Peter when Mick

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