The contender /

By: Lipsyte, RobertMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York : HarperTrophy, 1993Copyright date: ©1967Edition: First HarperTrophy editionDescription: 227, 4 pages ; 18 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeAudience: ChildrenISBN: 9780064470391 ; 0064470393 ; 9781435232891 (PawPrnt); 1435232895 (PawPrnt)Subject(s): High school dropouts -- Young adult fiction | Boxers (Sports) -- Young adult fiction | African Americans -- Young adult fiction | Juvenile delinquency -- Young adult fiction | Boxing -- Young adult fiction | Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Young adult fictionGenre/Form: Boxing stories. Summary: 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.
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Published in hardcover by Harper & Row in 1967.

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.