The Contender Mass market paperbound - 2018
by Robert Lipsyte
A 17-year-old Harlem boy struggles to become a champion boxer in this "excellent novel (recommended) for use in the early phases of secondary school literature study" ("Language Arts").
From the rear cover
Before you can be a champion,
you have to be a contender.
Alfred Brooks is scared. He's a highschool dropout and his grocery store job is leading nowhere. His best friend is sinking further and further into drug addiction. Some street kids are after him for something he didn't even do. So Alfred begins going to Donatelli's Gym, a boxing club in Harlem that has trained champions. There he learns it's the effort, not the win, that makes the man -- that last desperate struggle to get back on your feet when you thought you were down for the count.
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- Title The Contender
- Author Robert Lipsyte
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins, New York, New York, U.S.A
- Date 2018-02-13
- ISBN 9780064470391 / 0064470393
- Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
- Dimensions 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.8 in (17.02 x 10.41 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 13 to UP years
- Grade levels 8 - UP
- Reading level 690
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Themes
- Catalog Heading: Language Arts/Literature
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Curriculum Strand: Language Arts/Literature
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Topical: Self-Esteem
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans, Boxers (Sports)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97822736
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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