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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
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?A novel filled with hardships and hope.?ALA Booklist
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Before you can be a champion,
you have to be a contender.
Alfred Brooks is scared. He's a highschool 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 man -- that last desperate struggle to get back on your feet when you thought you were down for the count.
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Seller: Blue Vase Books, Interlochen, MI, U.S.A.
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Condition: good. Mass market paperback in GOOD condition with normal wear from use. Cover art my differ from that shown in photo. Seller Inventory # 31URM800CLUE_ns