The Contender Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Robert Lipsyte
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
245

The Contender by Robert Lipsyte Book Summary

The breakthrough modern sports novel The Contender shows readers the true meaning of being a hero.

This acclaimed novel by celebrated sportswriter Robert Lipsyte, the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in YA fiction, is the story of a young boxer in Harlem who overcomes hardships and finds hope in the ring on his path to becoming a contender.

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.

ALA Best of the Best Books for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children’s Book * New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age

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Book Name The Contender
Genre Coming of Age Fiction for Young Adults
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 870.83 KB

The Contender (Robert Lipsyte) Book Reviews 2024

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Great book. What a great book I have to write a project on it and I will easily get a A

One of the best books I ever read. I usually don't read that much but my class had to read it for school. We where supposed to finish it in sections but by the 5 day I was all ready done with it. I highly recommend this book to young adults I had a life lesson. But I am not going to tell u it u will have to read it to find out

Great. Great book this is one of the things that inspired me to join a boxing gym! :-)

great book. My class just got done reading this and now i have to do a movie poster for it.

The Contender by Robert Lipstye. Such an amazing book! Once I started reading it, I didn't want to stop. It took me nearly 3 whole days to finish this book! After reading this great novel, I've decided that I'm going to read more books that were also wrote by Mr. Lipstye.

Recommended. I'm 13 and this book is good. I did it for a book report an in 2 days I had it done. I hate too read but this book was amazing! Highly recommended! The book tells you a lot about life.

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Contender. Very interesting book. Lots of details. Very good for young athletes

Greeaaaat!. I loved this book. Highly recommend it!

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Summary of The Contender by Robert Lipsyte

The The Contender book written by Robert Lipsyte was published on 26 January 2010, Tuesday in the Coming of Age Fiction for Young Adults category. A total of 245 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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