Title: Squaring off
Description: Thirteen-year-old Willy tries to become a boxer to win the respect of his war hero father and the attention of Lujane Jessup, the stripper who has arrived to complicate his life.
Subjects: Boxing, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Children of veterans, Stripteasers, Juvenile fiction, Fifties (20th century), Teenage boxers, Sports, New York Times reviewed, Children's fiction, Fathers, fiction