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Author: Robert Lipsyte Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061995878 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 111
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The breakthrough modern sports novel The Contender shows readers the true meaning of being a hero. This acclaimed novel by celebrated sportswriter Robert Lipsyte, the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in YA fiction, is the story of a young boxer in Harlem who overcomes hardships and finds hope in the ring on his path to becoming a contender. 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 has trained champions. There he learns it’s the effort, not the win, that makes the boxer—that before you can be a champion, you have to be a contender. ALA Best of the Best Books for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children’s Book * New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age
Author: Robert Lipsyte Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061995878 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 111
Book Description
The breakthrough modern sports novel The Contender shows readers the true meaning of being a hero. This acclaimed novel by celebrated sportswriter Robert Lipsyte, the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in YA fiction, is the story of a young boxer in Harlem who overcomes hardships and finds hope in the ring on his path to becoming a contender. 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 has trained champions. There he learns it’s the effort, not the win, that makes the boxer—that before you can be a champion, you have to be a contender. ALA Best of the Best Books for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children’s Book * New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age
Author: Stanley P Baldwin Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0544180887 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 100
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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. In CliffsNotes on The Contender, you look into a moral tale that emphasizes the importance of the fight over the prize, the quality of the struggle over the outcome. Following the development of the novel's protagonist, this study guide's in-depth character analysis covers the coming-of-age of a high school dropout who literally fights young boxers and figuratively braves the inner battles of peer pressure. Other features that help you figure out this important work include Life and background of the author, Robert Lipsyte Introduction to the book with a synopsis, character list, and character map Summaries, critical commentaries, and glossaries for each chapter Critical essays focusing on setting, major themes, and the author's writing style A review section that tests your knowledge and suggests essay topics A Resource Center full of books, publications, films, and Internet resources Classic literature or modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
Author: Gene Fehler Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0547534000 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 133
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It's the last inning of a high school baseball game between arch-rivals Oak Grove and Compton. Center fielder Luke "Wizard" Wallace steps up to the plate--and is hit by a beanball, a wild pitch that shatters his skull, destroys the vision in his left eye, and changes his life forever. In this riveting novel, the events surrounding this pivotal moment are recounted through free-verse monologues by 28 different voices, including those of Luke and his Oak Grove teammates; the pitcher, Kyle Dawkins, and other Compton players; the two coaches; Luke's family members and teachers; and Sarah Edgerton, a new classmate who seems more affected by Luke's injury than his girlfriend is. With its unusual format, gripping subject matter, and economy of language, Beanball is a thought-provoking, fast-paced read.
Author: Robert Lipsyte Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061995916 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 146
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The acclaimed book behind the new major motion picture Measure of a Man, starring Donald Sutherland, Judy Greer, Luke Wilson, and Blake Cooper. A New York Times Outstanding Book and ALA Best of the Best Books for Young Adults For Bobby Marks, summer does not equal fun. While most people are happy to take off their heavy jackets and long pants, Bobby can't even button his jeans or reach over his belly to touch his toes. Spending the summer at Rumson Lake is sheer torture. This particular summer promises to be worse than usual. His parents can't stop fighting. His best friend, Joanie, goes home to New York City and won't tell him why. Dr. Kahn, a rich, stingy estate owner who hires him to manage an enormous lawn, is working him to death. And to top it off, a local bully won't stop torturing him. Bobby is about to find out just how terrifying and exhilarating one fat summer can be.
Author: Robert Cormier Publisher: Delacorte Press ISBN: 0307548449 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 114
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Money’s tight and Henry is lucky to have the job at Mr. Hairston’s grocery store. His parents are both lost in despair following the death of Henry’s older brother, and Henry is glad for the opportunity to feel like he’s helping. Saving to buy a marker for Eddie’s grave, Henry tries to ignore Mr. Hairston’s commentary about the customers. But Henry is shocked when he is told he’s being laid off. That is, unless he agrees to do one thing, one terrible thing.
Author: Charles Benoit Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0062008013 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 246
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This wasn't the way it was supposed to go. You're just a typical fifteen-year-old sophomore, an average guy named Kyle Chase. This can't be happening to you. But then, how do you explain all the blood? How do you explain how you got here in the first place? There had to have been signs, had to have been some clues it was coming. Did you miss them, or ignore them? Maybe if you can figure out where it all went wrong, you can still make it right. Or is it already too late? Think fast, Kyle. Time's running out. How did this happen? You is the riveting story of fifteen-year-old Kyle and the small choices he does and doesn't make that lead to his own destruction. In his stunning young-adult debut, Charles Benoit mixes riveting tension with an insightful—and unsettling—portrait of an ordinary teen in a tale that is taut, powerful, and shattering. Advance praise for You: "You is authentic, ambitious, and gripping. A serious book that reads like a suspense novel, the story it tells—of the ways in which we become imprisoned by our own choices, big and small—is both frightening and frighteningly real." —Lauren Oliver, New York Times bestselling author of Before I Fall "Charles Benoit has written a shattering, gut-wrenching novel that puts You right in the center of the story. Pick it up and you won't put it down!" —Michael Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Gone "I sat down to start this book—and didn't get up until I'd finished it, a riveting three hours later. You is pitch-perfect: funny, real, touching, brimming with tension and foreboding—and still surprising right up to the last page. one of the best ya novels I've read in years." —Patricia McCormick, National Book Award finalist, author of Sold and Purple Heart "A sandstorm of a novel, as harshly real as hell or high school. I loved it." —Robert Lipsyte, Margaret A. Edwards Award–winning author of The Contender and Center Field "Wanna know who the real bad guys in your school are? Read You. This book will keep you reading, and then it will start you thinking. And talking. You is good stuff." —Chris Crutcher, Margaret A. Edwards Award–winning author of Deadline
Author: Robert Lipsyte Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061995835 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 244
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Sonny's been an outsider all his life. He has never fit into either world: the Moscondagas on the Reservation see him as white; whites see him as Indian. So far, Sonny's managed to harness his anger -- what he calls "the monster" -- in the boxing ring. But Sonny wants out of the Res. He's headed for New York City, where nobody can tell him what to do. Sonny doesn't count on stepping into the middle of a drug war when he gets there -- or on tangling with a tough Harlem boxer-turned-cop named Alfred Brooks. Brooks seems to think that Sonny's got the talent to make it to the top -- to be a contender. But first Sonny's got to learn to be smart, take control of his life, and beat the monster. Only it isn't as easy as it sounds....
Author: Michael Cart Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 192
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School. Included are a preface, a chronology, notes and references, a selected bibliography, an appendix listing Lipsyte's awards and honors, and an index.
Author: Kathy Gnagey Short Publisher: ISBN: 9780133522273 Category : Young adult literature Languages : en Pages : 0
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An engaging and succinct overview of young adult literature, using a genre approach and an emphasis on immersion in literature. Thoroughly engaging readers in the pleasure and excitement of reading excellent books-and ultimately preparing tomorrow's teachers to integrate literature into middle and high school curricula-this text focuses on reading young adult books, not talking about them. It presents short chapters that include extensive recommended booklists organized by genre and topic, and relates young adult literature to current issues such as standards, the literary canon, censorship, close reading, critical literacy, and resistant readers. Essentials of Young Adult Literature, 3/e gives readers what they most need to know about teaching literature to young adults in a concise and direct way, using brief lists, examples, figures, and tables in combination with prose, and freeing up class time for immersive involvement with literature. Recommended booklists at the end of each genre chapter support students in locating excellent young adult titles for their own reading. This new edition adds many new young adult books and retains those that remain most popular with students. Many titles with a global or multicultural focus are now integrated into the genre chapters, and a separate chapter that addresses critical issues specific to these books. Features within chapters are updated to include important research developments, recent young adult books, outstanding new authors, and current issues and controversies. Connections to the Common Core State Standards are woven throughout, and the revised chapter on nonfiction now responds to the recent emphasis on informational text structures and formats. Logical, well-organized structure, and succinct yet comprehensive coverage Focuses on reading young adult books, not talking about them In-depth coverage of multicultural and international young adult literature Includes numerous useful organizing features
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