The Contender book review.

The Contender is another book that I liked. The Contender was writen by Robert Lipsyte. The Contender has some similarities to the book Homeboyz. Those similarities are there is drugs, police, fights, arguements, jail, and stealing. In this book there's a 17 year old kid named Alfred Brooks and he's having problems with his best friend James. Alfred is also becoming a boxer, he trains every day unless he has an upcoming match. Then he also has to deal with work at a grocery store with the Epstines. so alfred is jugleing all these things from losing his best friend, to boxing, and work. Alfred is still learning a lot of things like his best friend only cares about drugs not Alfred. This a really exciting book that you will enjoy. You will definitely enjoy those boxing matches when you're thinking who is going to win Alfred or the contender.