The Contender /
Lipsyte, Robert, 1938- , author.
The Contender / Robert Lipsyte. - First Harper Trophy edition. Enlarged by W. Ross Macdonald School. - New York. : Harper Trophy, 1993. - 227 pages : comb binding ; 37 cm - The Contender ; 1 .
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.
For grades 7 and older readers.
This work in alternate format is reproduced with the permission of the Canadian Reprography Collection. The books are financed by the Ministry of Education, Ontario and are lent without charge to visually handicapped students.
0060239204 0064470393
67019623
High school dropouts--Fiction.
Boxers (Sports)--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Large type books.
FICTION / Sports
F LIP
The Contender / Robert Lipsyte. - First Harper Trophy edition. Enlarged by W. Ross Macdonald School. - New York. : Harper Trophy, 1993. - 227 pages : comb binding ; 37 cm - The Contender ; 1 .
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.
For grades 7 and older readers.
This work in alternate format is reproduced with the permission of the Canadian Reprography Collection. The books are financed by the Ministry of Education, Ontario and are lent without charge to visually handicapped students.
0060239204 0064470393
67019623
High school dropouts--Fiction.
Boxers (Sports)--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Large type books.
FICTION / Sports
F LIP