The contender
By: Robert Lipsyte
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780590267168
Copyright date: 1967
Subjects: Boxing stories
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: On back cover: Cover art c1987 by Ed Acuna.