The Contender

The Contender
Author: Robert Lipsyte
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2010-01-26
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0061995878

The breakthrough modern sports novel The Contender shows readers the true meaning of being a hero. This acclaimed novel by celebrated sportswriter Robert Lipsyte, the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in YA fiction, is the story of a young boxer in Harlem who overcomes hardships and finds hope in the ring on his path to becoming a contender. Alfred Brooks is scared. He’s a high-school dropout, and his grocery store job is leading nowhere. His best friend is sinking further and further into drug addiction. Some street kids are after him for something he didn’t even do. So Alfred begins going to Donatelli’s Gym, a boxing club in Harlem that has trained champions. There he learns it’s the effort, not the win, that makes the boxer—that before you can be a champion, you have to be a contender. ALA Best of the Best Books for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children’s Book * New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age

Dorothy of Oz

Dorothy of Oz
Author: Roger S. Baum
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 186
Release: 1989-10-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0688078486

Afterword by Peter Glassman. "Dorothy is called back to Oz by Glinda, the Good Witch of the South, because the Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion need help....The great-grandson of L. Frank Baum here adds to the Oz canon with a story that is true to the originals....Oz fans will welcome this new adventure."--Booklist.

THE WOMAN BODY WAS NOT BUILT FOR COMPETITION

THE WOMAN BODY WAS NOT BUILT FOR COMPETITION
Author: Leston Black
Publisher: Writers Republic LLC
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2024-01-12
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN:

Children Learn What They Live IF A child lives with criticism, He learns to condemn IF A child lives with Hostility, He Learns to Fight IF A child lives with Ridicule, He learns to be Shy IF A child lives with Shame, He learns to feel Guilty IF A child lives with Tolerance, He learns to be Patient IF A child lives with Encouragement, He learns Confidence IF A child lives with Praise, He learns to Appreciate IF A child lives with Fairness, He learns Justice IF A child lives with Security, He learns to have Faith IF A child lives with Approval, He learns to like Himself IF A child lives with Acceptance & Friendship, He learns to find love in the world. Parent is the only full time job.

Let Joy Arise

Let Joy Arise
Author: Ashea S. Goldson
Publisher: Urban Books
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2012-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1622860470

Taylor Carter-Bryant is well on her way to entrepreneurial success with her fitness center—until an enemy from her scandalous past shows up to take her down. She's always been a tough woman with a fighting spirit, but lately she's feeling pressure from too many places at once. Taylor is not only struggling to recover from a life-altering leg injury, but she is at risk of losing the business she is passionate about at the hands of a woman scorned. As if that weren't bad enough, an old college friend comes back into her husband's life, and suddenly Taylor is at risk of losing him to an addiction she didn't even know he had. When the enemy threatens to take away all that she holds dear, Taylor is faced with a decision: submit to God's will and let Him fight her battles, or turn away from the Word. Will she survive the wrath of her enemies and be declared victorious, or will she succumb to the pressure of the flesh and go back to her former naughty ways?