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The Contender
Author: Robert Lipsyte

Book Information
Publisher: Trophy Pr
Book Type: Paperback
Rating:
2

ISBN-13: 9780064471527 - ISBN-10: 0064471527
Publication Date: 5/1996
Reading Level: Young Adult


Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover, Paperback, Hardcover

Book Description:
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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Kathy M. (skooby) wrote on 7/27/2008...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

It's not the type of book I usually read but I found I really enjoyed it. I would have liked the finish to be more complete.


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