The Contender
Lipsyte, Robert
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BOOK SUMMARY
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 fo
BOOK SYNOPSIS
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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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0064470393
Copyright: 1987
Dewey Decimal: [Fic]
Library of Congress: BL2003006062
Book Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 4
Paper Weight (lb): 0.2
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