Biography of Muhammad Ali, for younger readers, by an experienced and literate sportswriter.

Free to Be Muhammad Ali

robert-lipsyte

Children's Books

Harper&Row

Robert Lipsyte Teacher's Guide

HarperCollins Children`s Books

Assignment, Sports

HarperCollins, Publishers

The Contender

Feeling the pressures of Harlem life and its drug problems, police, and street fights, a seventeen-year-old high school drop-out turns to boxing

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

Trophy Pr

BANTAM BOOKS

1997 McDougal Littell Literature Connections Sourcebook -- Robert Lipsyte The Contender and Related Readings (P) ***ISBN-13: 9780395833599 ***49 Pages

The Contender and Related Readings (Literature Connections Source Book)

McDougal, Littell

from back cover:No summer vacation could be less promising than Bobby Marks's.Bobby Marks hates hot weaather. It's the time when most people are happy to take off their heavy jackets and long pants. But for Bobby, who can't even button the waist of his jeans or reach over his belly to touch his toes, spending the summer at Rumson Lake is pure torture.This particular summer promises to be worse than usual. His mom and dad can't stop fighting. His best friend, Joanie, goes home to New York City unexpectedly and won't tell him why. Dr. Kahn, the rich, stingy estate owner who hires him to manage the lawn, is trying to work Bobby to death before he can earn a single dime. And the local guy who worked for Dr. Kahn last summer is lurking around every corner, itching for a chance to catch Bobby alone, to pay him back for stealing the job.But there's more to Bobby Marks than his200 pounds. He's about to find out just how terrifying and exhilarating, how dangerous and wonderful, one fat summer can be.

One Fat Summer

Scholastic. Inc.

When the drugs that he takes as part of his chemotherapy suddenly transform him from wimp into superhero, sixteen-year-old Fred and his friends plot to rid the town of its most lethal environmental hazard, toxic waste in the water supply.

The Chemo Kid

The Trumpet Club, Inc.

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's trained champions. There he learns it's the effort, not the win, that makes the man, that last desperate struggle to get back on your feet when you thought you were down for the count.

The Trumpet Club

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Free to Be Muhammad Ali

Robert Lipsyte Teacher's Guide

Assignment, Sports

The Contender

The Contender

The Contender and Related Readings (Literature Connections Source Book)

One Fat Summer

The Chemo Kid

The Contender

The Contender