Fighting Ruben Wolfe
By: Markus Zusak
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780439241878
Subjects: Boxing stories; Juvenile fiction; Boxing; Brothers; Fiction
Description: Partly because of their family's poor finances and partly to prove themselves, brothers Ruben and Cameron take jobs as fighters and find themselves reacting very differently in the boxing ring. The working class family of Cameron Wolfe and his brother Ruben isn't having much luck these days. Their dad has just lost his job and is too proud to go on welfare. Their older brother has moved out of the house in disgust. Which leaves them open to suggestion when a local boxing promotor signs them up for illegal bouts. But it's more than the meager winnings that draws the two brothers in. Soon they find themselves fighting for something else. Is it pride? Love? Or just the experience of winning for once? A knockout debut from the front lines of a family's recession.
Notes: "Push."

Originally published: New York : A.A. Levine Books, 2001.