The Contender
Publisher: Tandem Library
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: School & Library Binding
ISBN-13: 9780881030143
Subjects: People & Places - United States - African-American; Children's 12-Up - Fiction - General; Children: Grades 4-6; African Americans; Boxing; Fiction; Juvenile delinquency
First sentence: He waited on the stoop until twilight, pretending to watch the sun melt into the dirty gray Harlem sky.