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Name: The Contender

Author: Robert Lipsyte
Year: 1967
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Young adult, Fiction, Sports

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ISBNs:
9780064470391
0064470393

This is a sports fiction novel that tells a story of Alfred Brooks, a seventeen-year-old high school drop-out, living in Harlem, finding his way in the world and in boxing. Alfred learns that getting to the top is not as important as how you get there, and that before you can be a champion, you have to be a contender with the will to get back on your feet after you have been knocked down.

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First published in 2003
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"The Chief"
First published in 1985
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