Lipsyte, Robert. <br/><br/>
The contender 
Robert Lipsyte. 
 - New York  Harper & Row  1987. 
 - 167 p. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0064470393 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>92000444  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Boxing--Fiction.<br/>Afro-Americans--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PZ 7  / .L67 1967 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813  / L767c [Fic]