TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lipsyte,Robert
TI  - The Contender
T2  - The Contender
SN  - 0060239204
U1  - F LIP 
PY  - 1993///
CY  - New York.
PB  - Harper Trophy
KW  - High school dropouts
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Boxers (Sports)
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Large type books
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / Sports
N1  - For grades 7 and older readers; This work in alternate format is reproduced with the permission of the Canadian Reprography Collection. The books are financed by the Ministry of Education, Ontario and are lent without charge to visually handicapped students.

; Photocopied from; New York : HarperTrophy, 1993; 167 p; 0064470393
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  -