The Contender

The Contender

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  • ISBN: 9780064470391
  • Author: Lipsyte, Robert
  • Series Title: Contender Ser.
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Fiction/ Nonfiction: Fiction
  • Subject: STEM
  • Annotation: Alfred Brooks is scared. He's a high-school dropout, and his grocery store job is leading nowhere. His best friend is sinking further and further into drug addiction. Some street kids are after him for something he didn't even do. So Alfred begins going to Donatelli's Gym, a boxing club in Harlem that has trained champions. There he learns it's the effort, not the win, that makes the boxer--that before you can be a champion, you have to be a contender.
  • Grade Level: 9-12
  • Reading Level: Z+
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Number of Pages: 240
  • Lexile Range: 600-699
  • Interest Level: Grades 9-12
  • AR/ATOS Level Range: 4.5-4.9
  • Publish Year: 2018