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Becoming Muhammad Ali volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
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"Before he was a household name, Cassius Clay was a kid with struggles like any other. Kwame Alexander and James Patterson join forces to vividly depict his life up to age seventeen in both prose and verse, including his childhood friends, struggles in school, the racism he faced, and his discovery of boxing. Readers will learn about Cassius' family and neighbors in Louisville, Kentucky, and how, after a thief stole his bike, Cassius began training...
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A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD. From award-winning author Willy Vlautin, comes this moving novel about a young ranch hand who goes on a quest to become a champion boxer to prove his worth.
Horace Hopper is a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand who wants to be somebody. He's spent most of his life on the ranch of his kindly guardians, Mr. and Mrs. Reese, herding sheep alone in the mountains. But while the Reeses treat him like a son, Horace...
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Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets "the treatment" that may break him or kill him. First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he's risking his career to have an affair with the commanding officer's wife. Both Warden and Prewitt are bound by a common bond: the Army is their heart...
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Contender volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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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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Benjamin Weaver novels volume 2
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After a daring escape from eighteenth-century London's most notorious prison, benjamin Weaver must face another challenge: how to prove himself innocent of a crime when the corrupt courts have already shown they want only to see him hang.
6) Blood sport
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
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"In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Jason is determined to find out the truth about his sisters death."--
7) Alburquerque
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Focusses on an ex-Golden Glove champion who meets up with a writer in Albuquerque, New Mexico, while searching for his father.
8) The brave
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Contender volume Bk. 2
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IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
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Having left the Indian reservation for the streets of New York, seventeen-year-old boxer Sonny Bear tries to harness his inner rage by training with Alfred Brooks, who has left the sport to become a policeman.
9) Crusader
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Harry Camden came out of the wilderness unwillingly. It was a girl who attracted him. But Sparrow Roberts, a fight manager, used this romantic lure only to attract Harry into his own sphere because he knew that Camden had a truly devastating punch. Yet, fighting wasn't what Harry really wanted, nor was he fascinated by any of the blandishments of civilization. He did not want to be a champion boxer and drifted into a life of drunkenness and crime,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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"In the wake of the 1900 Galveston hurricane, three lives converge despite persecution from the Ku Klux Klan, a bare-knuckle boxing match gone wrong, and the recovery efforts of the American Red Cross. Based on a true story. The hurricane of 1900, America's worst natural disaster, left the island city of Galveston in ruins. Thousands perished, including all ninety-three children at the Sisters of the Incarnate Word orphanage--except six-year-old Hester,...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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His mind failing from the effects of decades of bare-knuckle fighting, his foster mother's family legacy in the hands of strangers, and overwhelmed with gambling debts, Jack's only chance at redemption is to step into the fighting pit one last time.
16) The professional
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2001
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"The story of boxer Eddie Brown's quest for the middleweight championship of the world." -- Back cover.
17) Marbleface
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When almost middle weight champ of the World of fighters is told to slow down by his doctor ; so he quits fist fighting to become a remarkably good gunfighter.
18) Campeón gabacho
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2015.
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Así habla Liborio. De esa forma piensa. Él debe dejar México, esa tierra que no le ha ofrecido nada más que golpes y el instinto de sobrevivencia, tras un asesinato imprudencial. Cruza, como tantos otros, el Río Bravo para llegar "a la tierra prometida'. Y en un barrio indefinido de cualquier ciudad gringa, este mojado nos cuenta su historia.
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