Mercy Rule Author:Tom Leveen Mercy Rule (n): When a sports team is beating another so badly, the game is called. It?s a new school year, yet some things never change. Candace, chirpy optimist, loves Kermit the Frog and The Ramones. . . . What?s up with new kid Danny, kilt-wearing arts prodigy . . . brutally picked on by football heroes Dante and Brady? . . . Who?s trying t... more »o hook up with coach?s daughter . . . while her crowd Sharpies the valedictorian challenger? Quick cuts between a large cast of indelible characters, and razor-sharp plotting, take readers on a countdown to an avoidable yet somehow inevitable act. This un-put-down-able novel by Tom Leveen offers an intense, smart perspective on a tragic and inexplicable American ritual. In real life, as one character says, there is no mercy rule.« less