num_pages: 240
description: A fight for his people.Sonny Bear, the Tomahawk Kid, has a championship left hook. But his boxing career's going nowhere, and he's ready to hang it up.Then his manager, tough ex-cop Alfred Brooks, and his "writer," college boy Martin Malcolm Witherspoon, scheme Sonny into a glitzy Las Vegas match. Suddenly he's everybody's darling and headed for Hollywood stardom.But fame isn't all it's cracked up to be, and Sonny needs to make the fight of his life to decide where he really belongs.
language: English
title: The Chief
titlecomplete: The Chief
genres: Literature, Sports, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult
ratings_count: 71
series: The Contender
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Margaret A. Edwards Award
publisher: HarperTeen