TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lipsyte,Robert
AU  - McDougal Littell
TI  - The Contender: and related readings
T2  - Literature connections
SN  - 9780395833582
AV  - PZ7.M478.C668 1997 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Evanston, Illinois
PB  - McDougal Littell
KW  - Boxing stories
KW  - Boxing
KW  - Fiction
KW  - African Americans
N1  - Literature connections sourcebook may be available; Contender written by Robert Lipsyte; Contender; Robert Lipsyte  --; Seventh round; James Merrill  --; Fury; Ernesto Bethancourt  --; Story of my life; Helen Keller  --; Crown of Wild Olive; Rosemary Sutcliff  --; Rights to the Streets of Memphis; Richard Wright  --; Joan Benoit: U.S. Olympic Marathon Gold Medalist; Rina Ferrarelli  --; Muhammad Ali; Bill Littlefield  --; To the field goal kicker in a slump; Linda Pastan; 2
N2  - An African-American youth desperately wants to prove that he can be somebody
ER  -