Curt's got a job, a girlfriend and pitches for the Victoria Falcons-he might even go on to play professional ball. It's the start of a slippery slope when his coach gives him a bottle of muscle relaxant pills. Soon Curt can't sleep without them. In Dayle Campbell Gaetz's No Problem (Orca $9.95), things spiral out of control when an older girl convinces him to try cocaine. "Nothing mattered,"; says Curt. "Not a stupid little baseball game. Not Leah. Nothing... If only the high would last forever."; 1-55143-231-5

[SUMMER 2003 BCBW]