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The Boxer (Sunburst Book)
Hard-hitting historical fiction
Ever since his father ran off two years before, fifteen-year-old Johnny Woods has struggled to help support his ma and five siblings, sacrificing his own schooling in the process. Still, there's been hardly enough money each month to make the rent, and Johnny's dream of a house in Brooklyn, away from the tenement slums, is out of reach. ...more
Paperback, 144 pages
Published
September 10th 2004
by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
(first published 2000)
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A story of survival and life, the boxer is truly an amazing journey. I've been reading this book for a while and it's just full of action and is intense. John Aloysius Xavier Wodds, this young kid who is the man of the house with no father figure has to take care of his mother and little brother and sisters. So he gets a chance to make it out of the tenements in New York, and the way he does it by boxing. Things get out of hand, but with the help of Professor Mike O'Shaunnessey that he met in th...more
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So, i was at the libary and i noticed this book. I picked it up thinking it will be intresting and so far its very cool! From what it looks like i can tell it's about some guy trying to be a boxer. Something like Rocky i guess. Either way it looks like a very intresting book to read!
i think that in this book johnny tried really hard to support his family and in the end he got a good house and was very successful. he did whatever he had to do to keep food on the table for 5 kids an his mother, and he went to school so when he got older he could do something besides boxing. from this book i learned that what ever you have to do to get something, you should try and if you work hard enough you will get it.
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i have read this book i really wasnt listing when reading it now i have a project to do over every chapter and i dont know what to do .. i have learend to listing when someone is reading..
i really enjoyed reading this book this year.i read it about 3 or 4 months ago, so i dont really remember much. i do know that i read it and liked it. in the the book it shows that anything can happen because, in the book they are a low income family and they have 3 or 4 kids and the mom works at home working on a sewing machine and the main character starts out fighting at saloons, and he gets sent to jail and he meets a trainer in there and he trains while he is in there and when he gets out h...more
This is actually the first non-fiction book that i've read. And it was heart-thrilling.
this book has alot of action in it.
this book is about a guy and he gets put in jail for fighting.
when he's in jail he learns how to box form this other guy teaching him how to.
he was in jail for about a year or two.
this book is about a guy and he gets put in jail for fighting.
when he's in jail he learns how to box form this other guy teaching him how to.
he was in jail for about a year or two.
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Kathleen Karr was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and grew up on a chicken farm in Dorothy, New Jersey. After escaping to college, she worked in the film industry, and also taught in high school and college. She seriously began writing fiction on a dare from her husband. After honing her skills in women’s fiction, her children asked her to write a book for them, (It Ain’t Always Easy, Farrar, Str...more
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