TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lipsyte,Robert
TI  - The contender
SN  - 0064470393 (pbk.) :
PY  - 1993///, c1967
CY  - New York
PB  - HarperTrophy
KW  - Boxing
KW  - Fiction
N1  - Accelerated Reader; 4.5; 5
N2  - 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
ER  -