The contender
By: by Robert Lipsyte
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Boxing -- Juvenile 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
Notes: King Collection copy with dust jacket