Robert Lipsyte has worked as both a journalist and an author of fiction. His first young adult novel, The Contender, grew from his experience covering boxing and was followed by The Brave and The Chief. One Fat Summer drew on his own adolescence. His writing for teenagers received the American Library Association's Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime contribution to young adult literature.
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2 editions: Print · 1992 | eBook · 1977
An overweight fourteen-year-old boy enters a summer that changes how he understands himself and the people around him. Used to embarrassment and retreat, he gradually faces situations he can no longer avoid. The season becomes a turning point as he learns to speak up, withstand pressure, and resist those who expect him to remain passive. His physical appearance does not change every difficulty, but his willingness to defend himself does.
Print · Trumpet Club · 1992 · English
eBook · Harper & Row · 1977 · English
3 editions: Print · 2008 | Print · 1995 | eBook · 1993
Nineteen-year-old Sonny Bear is close to earning a chance at the heavyweight boxing championship. His ambitions become entangled with a conflict on his reservation, where plans for a new gambling casino divide the community and test his loyalties. Sonny must decide how to balance the future he has pursued in the ring with his responsibilities at home. The novel concludes the linked stories that began with Alfred Brooks in The Contender and continued with Sonny in The Brave.
Print · HarperCollinsPublishers · 2008 · English
Print · HarperCollins · 1995-03-03 · English
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eBook · HarperCollinsPublishers · 1993 · English
2 editions: Print | eBook · 1991
Seventeen-year-old boxer Sonny Bear leaves his reservation for the streets of New York, carrying anger that repeatedly threatens to control him. He begins training with Alfred Brooks, a former boxer who has become a police officer. Their work in the gym gives Sonny a demanding outlet for that rage, but discipline requires more than physical ability. He must decide what kind of fighter and person he intends to become.
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eBook · HarperCollins · 1991 · English