Barley Soup and Slug Spit

a novel

GREG HARPER is starting eighth grade in the fall of 1988 when his life hits rock bottom. In his small town’s combined junior high/high school, he accidentally trips the varsity quarterback on the stairs, causing DOUG RYAN to sprain his ankle. Greg moves to the top of Doug’s revenge list, and to prove it, the football star ships Greg a shoebox by UPS that contains a dead rat.