Lipsyte, Robert. <br/><br/>
The contender / 
Robert Lipsyte. 
 - New York :  Harper Collins Publishers,  1967. 
 - 227 pages ;  17 cm. 
<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>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Afro-Americans--Fiction.<br/>Boxing--Fiction.