"Afro-Americans Fiction." . . . . "African American youth Fiction." . . "African Americans Fiction." . . "Boxing Fiction." . . "Youth Fiction." . . "African Americans." . . "African Americans" . . . "Contender" . . "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." . "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."@en . . "Juvenile works" . . "Juvenile works"@en . . . . . . . . "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."@en . "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." . . . . . . . . "Le Défi d'Alfred" . . "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."@en . . . . . . "Genres littéraires" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Al, der sanfte Sieger" . . . . . . . . "Le défi d'Alfred" . . . . . . . . . . . "Young adult works"@en . . "The contender" . "The contender"@en . . . . . . . . . "Fiction" . "Fiction"@en . . "Contender" . . . "Boxing stories"@en . . . . . . . . "Criticism, interpretation, etc" . . . "Electronic books"@en . "Ouvrages pour la jeunesse" . . "Electronic books" . . . . . . . . . . . . . "THE CONTENDER"@en . . . . . . . . "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." . "The Contender"@en . . . . . "Sports stories"@en . . "Adventure fiction"@en . "The Contender [pbk]"@en . . . . . . . "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."@en . "Young adult fiction"@en . . "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."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Sports stories." . . "African Americans Juvenile fiction." . . "Boxing stories." . . "Boxing stories" . "Boxe Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse." . . "Harlem (New York, N.Y.)" . . "Juvenile delinquency Fiction." . . "Children's stories." . . "Ghettoes, African American Fiction." . . "1900 - 1999" . . "JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / African American." . . "Noirs Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse." . . "Youth." . .