An edition of The Contender (1967)

The contender.

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An edition of The Contender (1967)

The contender.

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  • 3 Currently reading
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Before you can be a champion,you have to be a contender.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 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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HarperKeypoint
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English

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Juvenile fiction, Boxing, Boxers (Sports), Fiction, Sports, African Americans, African American teenage boys, High school dropouts, Juvenile delinquency, Boxing stories, African American Ghettoes, African American teenagers, African American boxers, Dropouts, African American youth, Gangs, Children's fiction, Boxing, fiction, African americans, fiction, Large type books

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Cover of: The Contender
The Contender
October 1999, Tandem Library
School & Library Binding in English
Cover of: The contender.
The contender.
1987, HarperKeypoint
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Originally published, New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

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Classifications

Library of Congress
PR6019.O9, PZ7.L67 Co, PS3562.I64 C6

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL14888173M
Internet Archive
contender000lips
ISBN 10
0064470393
LCCN
67019623
Library Thing
124732
Goodreads
821305

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL2704583W

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He waited on the stoop until twilight, pretending to watch the sun melt into the dirty gray Harlem sky.
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