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The Contender
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Hardcover
from Harpercollins Childrens Books (June 1, 1992)
9780060239190 | details & prices | 182 pages | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | List price $15.00
About: 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 do not know anything until you try
About: 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 do not know anything until you try
Large print edition from Cornerstone Books (August 1, 1987)
9781557360243 | details & prices | 214 pages | 6.50 × 9.75 × 0.75 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 1.10 lbs | List price $14.95
About: 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
About: 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
Paperback
Reissue edition from Trophy Pr (May 1, 1996)
9780064471527 | details & prices | 4.25 × 7.00 × 0.50 in. | Rec. grade levels 10-12 | 0.20 lbs | List price $2.25
About: 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
About: 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
Reissue edition from Harperteen (April 1, 1987)
9780064470391 | details & prices | 4 pages | 4.25 × 7.00 × 0.25 in. | Rec. grade levels 10-12 | 0.20 lbs | List price $8.99
About: 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.
About: 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.
Cassette/Spoken Word
With Peter Francis James (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Recorded Books (December 1, 1997); titled "Contender"
9780788707322 | details & prices | List price $34.00
Library
from Harpercollins (June 1, 1967); titled "Contender"
9780060239206 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | Rec. grade levels 10-12 | 0.90 lbs | List price $16.89
About: 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.
About: 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.
Reinforced
from Demco Media (September 1, 1991)
9780606025256 | details & prices | 4.25 × 7.25 × 0.75 in. | Rec. grade levels 7-9 | 0.35 lbs | List price $14.55
About: 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 do not know anything until you try
About: 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 do not know anything until you try
Prebinding
Reprint edition from Paw Prints (April 11, 2008)
9781435232891 | details & prices | 224 pages | 4.25 × 6.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.38 lbs | List price $15.99
About: After a successful start in a boxing career, a Harlem high school dropout decides that competing in the ring isn't enough of life and resolves to aim for different goals.
About: After a successful start in a boxing career, a Harlem high school dropout decides that competing in the ring isn't enough of life and resolves to aim for different goals.
from Turtleback Books (October 1, 1999)
9780881030143 | details & prices | 3.25 × 6.75 × 0.50 in. | Rec. grade levels 10-12 | 0.35 lbs | List price $19.65
About: 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.
About: 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.