Assignment, Sports

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HarperCollins, Publishers

The Contender

Feeling the pressures of Harlem life and its drug problems, police, and street fights, a seventeen-year-old high school drop-out turns to boxing

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

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Children's Books

BANTAM BOOKS

1997 McDougal Littell Literature Connections Sourcebook -- Robert Lipsyte The Contender and Related Readings (P) ***ISBN-13: 9780395833599 ***49 Pages

The Contender and Related Readings (Literature Connections Source Book)

McDougal, Littell

When the drugs that he takes as part of his chemotherapy suddenly transform him from wimp into superhero, sixteen-year-old Fred and his friends plot to rid the town of its most lethal environmental hazard, toxic waste in the water supply.

The Chemo Kid

The Trumpet Club, Inc.

Alfred Brooks is scared. He's a high school 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's 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.

The Trumpet Club

And to top it off, a local bully won't stop torturing him. Bobby is about to find out just how terrifying and exhilarating one fat summer can be.

One Fat Summer

Bantam Book

The Contender (The gut-wrenching story of life in the black ghetto)

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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Assignment, Sports

The Contender

The Contender

The Contender and Related Readings (Literature Connections Source Book)

The Chemo Kid

The Contender

The Contender

One Fat Summer

The Contender (The gut-wrenching story of life in the black ghetto)

The Contender