num_pages: 224
description: It's the difference between being a winner and being a fighter... Cameron and Ruben Wolfe are brothers from a family clinging to the ragged edge of the working class. Initially to make some money, the boys hook up with a sleazy fight promoter who sees something marketable and audience-pleasing in the untrained brothers' vulnerability. So they hide the boxing from their long-suffering mother. And Cameron hides what's going on in his head from the girls who come to the matches, the girls he wishes he could reach. But the Wolfes soon find that they're fighting for more than tips and pay-off money. It becomes for them a fight for identity, for dignity, and for each other. The question is, in a fight like that, who makes it out of the ring intact?
language: English
title: Fighting Ruben Wolfe
titlecomplete: Fighting Ruben Wolfe (Wolfe Brothers, #2)
characters: Mr Clifford Wolfe, Ruben Wolfe, Sarah Wolfe, Mrs Wolfe, Cameron Wolfe, Steven Wolfe, Perry Cole
genres: Realistic Fiction, Coming Of Age, Australia, Drama, Young Adult, Teen, Sports, Family, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 4621
places: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
series: Wolfe Brothers
awards: awardedAt: -62167190400000
name: Children's Book Council of Australia Award, awardedAt: 1388563200000
name: Margaret A. Edwards Award
publisher: Push