Leverage

     In the book Leverage by Josh C Cohen the main character Danny faces many personal problems and also team issues. He is the captain of his high school football team and is basically in charge of drafting new players for his team. He is not the best at his job but in the end his players all come through. Their is a lot of bullying that goes on with this team but in the end one thing pulls them together.

     Each time Danny drafts a new player they have to go through a sort of ritual. This ritual seems horrible and scary but after you do it once. You will love it. This ritual involves flipping over using just your jumping ability. This is basically to see how tough you are. After Danny drafts an overweight player everybody treats him as the new kid which is not fun at all. But Kurt shows that he is dedicated and becomes a very important part of the team.

    While the new kids keep on piling in Danny plans to bring them to the teams secret hide out as they call it. At first it looks like they are driving into a huge cliff but then Kurt and the newcomers come out of the car astonished to see the great beauty of the man made water stream in front of them.

     Overall I thought it was a great book and it also taught two lessons. Don,t judge a book by its cover and don,t ever exclude someone or else it might come back to haunt you in the near future that lies ahead of you. Also it taught not to bully.