LitPick Review
Alfred Brooks' life looks like it's falling apart, he's a high school dropout and has a grocery store job that is amouting to nothing. His best friend is sinking deeper and deeper into drug addiction. So Alfred decides to start to go to Donatelli's Gym, a boxing club in Harlem that has trained champions. He starts to turn his life around. He learns there that it's the effort that makes the man, not the win.
Opinion:
The Contender is a very good book with a message for all teens. I enjoyed the story and characters. This book is written at a 4th to 5th grade level and probably would appeal more to boys since it deals with boxing.
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