The contender
By: Robert Lipsyte.
Edition: 1st Harper Keypoint ed.
Publisher: HarperKeypoint
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780060239190; 9780060239206; 9780064470391
Subjects: African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.; Boxing -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: 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.