Lipsyte, Robert

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Heroes of Baseball

Focuses on the men who played America's favorite game.

Assignment: sports

A sportswriter discusses some of the various sporting events he has covered, including the Met's first spring training, wheelchair track, croquet in London, an eating contest, and the 1968 Olympics.

Tote: The Contender

The contender

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 twin powers

2014
Identical twins and mirror opposites Tom and Eddie share a "road trip" between planets and risk everything to save their father from the alien scientists.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Hercules in America
1995
A biography of the Austrian-born world champion bodybuilder who went on to become a Hollywood star and active in the politics of his adopted home.

One fat summer

1978
An overweight fourteen-year-old boy experiences a turning point summer in which he learns to stand up for himself.

The Chemo Kid

1993
When the drugs that he takes as part of his chemotherapy suddenly transform him from wimp into superhero, sixteen-year-old Fred and his friends plot to rid the town of its most lethal environmental hazard, toxic waste in the water supply.

The Contender

And Related Readings
2000
An African-American youth struggles to prove himself inside and outside of the boxing ring.

The contender

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.

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