The contender /

Lipsyte, Robert.

The contender / Robert Lipsyte. - New York : Harper & Row, - 182 pages ; 22 cm

A Harlem high school dropout escapes from a gang of punks into a boxing gym, where he learns that being a contender is hard and often discouraging work, but that you don't know anything until you try.

Lexile: 760.

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Boxing stories.
African American teenage boys--Juvenile fiction.
High school dropouts--Juvenile fiction.
Gangs--Juvenile fiction.
Boxing--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
African American boxers--Fiction.
African American teenage boys--Fiction.
African American teenagers--Fiction.
High school dropouts--Fiction.
Dropouts--Fiction.
Ghettoes, African American--Fiction.
Gangs--Fiction.
Sports--Fiction.
--Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse.
African American teenage boys
Boxing stories
Gangs
High school dropouts
Boxing--Fiction.
African American youth--Fiction.
Juvenile delinquency--Fiction.


Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Juvenile fiction.
New York (State)--New York--Harlem
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.


Boxing stories.
Fictional Work
novels.
Novels
Boxing stories
Fiction
Juvenile works
Sports fiction.
Fiction.
Novels.
Romans.

PZ7.L67 / Co PS3562.I64 / C6

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