Contender, The by Lipsyte, Robert Reviewed by amber, age 14 the contender robert Lipsyte The Contender Alfred Brooks is a high school drop out. He’s about 15 or 16. He has a job at a grocery store, and it’s going no where. Alfred has always been a quit kid. He had to move in with his aunt when his mom died. His best friend James has started hanging out with the wrong crowd. He is starting to do drugs, and he’s trying to bring Alfred down with him. Major and his friends call him Old Uncle Alfred. The say that he’s nothing but a slave, because he works for the Epstein’s. Alfred slipped up and told Major and James that the Epstein’s have a lot of money in the cash register. Major James and Hollis were thinking about stealing the money. They tried to get Alfred to go with them, but he refused to go. As Alfred was walking down the rode, he remembered that the Epstein’s put a new alarm in the store. He ran as fast as he could to get to the store to tell them. He was too late. The police caught one of them, they caught James. When he got home Major and Hollis were waiting for him. They beat him up. The next morning he woke up and his aunt was standing over him. She asked him what happened. He told her that he fell off a fence, but she didn’t believe him. That night he was walking down the rode when he found him self in front of a gym, He went in. It was dark and there was a chair in the middle of the room. There was a little old man setting in the chair. Alfred told him that he wanted to be someone, a champion. Donatelli told him that he couldn’t be a champion until he is a contender. He told him what to do to start off, and told him to come by the gym the next day. He came back and started training, he got better and better. Finally he was ready, he had his first fight. He won it by decision. He kept training, he had his second fight, he won it too. He had his third fight, they had a draw. Donatelli told him that is was time for him to retire. But he had just one more fight. He lost, be Donatelli then found out that he was finally a contender. At the end of the book, he found James in the rocks in the park. He cut his arm on the glass window. He lost a lot of blood, Alfred had to carry him all the way to the hospital. He told James not to worry, that he had enough blood for the both of them. Other reviews of this book were also done by: Rusty, age 14 Ariel , age 14 Tess, age 14 Alisha, age 14 Peter , age 13 Jamiel, age 14 Peter , age 13 Halleigh, age 13 Jeanette, age 13 Alex, age 13 Jeanette, age 13 zack, age 14 Karla , age 14 Diana , age 14 Jeanette, age 13 Junior , age 15 Vanessa, age 15 Zack, age 14 Perla, age 13 Caitlyn, age 13 Jesus, age 14 Joey, age 14 Jennifer, age 14 Joey, age 14 Jesus, age 14 chris, age 14 Priscilla, age 13 Cristal, age 14 Hector, age 13 Shy, age 13 Andy, age 13 Beatriz, age 14 Tyler, age 14 Cameron, age 14 rodrick, age 14 jacquez, age 14 Anaise, age 14 Ashley, age 13 Delvon, age 14 randy, age 15 Armando, age 13 Angel, age 14 zack, age 15 cristian, age 13 ivy, age 13 Ivan, age 14 TOMAS, age 13 Gaby, age 14 Laura, age 13 luis, age 14 Jonathan , age 13 Hannah, age 14 Lucero, age 14 Haley , age 13 tabitha , age 14 Briana, age 14 christopher, age 14 Bobbie, age 14 oscar , age 59 jose, age 14 Daniel , age 14 Gabriel, age 14 juan, age 14 Carolina, age 14 Chris, age 14 Heather, age 14 jake, age 14 Brea, age 13 Dustin, age 13 Jessica, age 13 mary, age 14 Dustin, age 0 Jessica, age 0 Edwin, age 0 Christian, age 0 Samuel, age 0 Curtis, age 0 Elizabeth, age 0 Christian, age 14 Ashleigh, age 14 curtis, age 15 Elizabeth, age 14 Efrain, age 14 Carlos , age 14 Samuel, age 14 Kaley, age 13 Whitney, age 15 Kaley, age 14

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