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The Contender by Robert Lipsyte; hoopla digital is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Contender about?
<b>Before you can be a champion, <br>you have to be a contender.</b> <p> Alfred Brooks is scared. He's a highschool 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 man -- that last desperate struggle to get
Who reads The Contender?
It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.
Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.
- Author
- Robert Lipsyte; hoopla digital
- Publisher
- HarperTrophy/HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 1967
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780060239206
- Category
- children's
- Subjects
- Fiction, Children'S, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.6 / 5 (231 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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