Shadow Boxer
1st Edition
Published on 5. March 2013
192 pages
978-1-4424-4688-5 (ISBN)
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Boxing is the family sport?but it's killing the family in this riveting read from the author of Inexcusable, a National Book Award finalist.
It's been five years since his father died, and fourteen-year-old George is the man of the family. He knows all too well how brutal the life of a fighter can be. Didn't it kill his father?
But Monty, George's younger brother, has a completely different attitude. Boxing comes naturally to him. It's in his blood. He thinks of it as his father's legacy.
Unless George figures out a way to stop it, will boxing kill Monty, too?
It's been five years since his father died, and fourteen-year-old George is the man of the family. He knows all too well how brutal the life of a fighter can be. Didn't it kill his father?
But Monty, George's younger brother, has a completely different attitude. Boxing comes naturally to him. It's in his blood. He thinks of it as his father's legacy.
Unless George figures out a way to stop it, will boxing kill Monty, too?
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Chris Lynch
Shadow Boxer
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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Chris Lynch is the award-winning author of several highly acclaimed young adult novels, including Printz Honor Book Freewill, Iceman, Gypsy Davey, and Shadow Boxer-all ALA Best Books for Young Adults-as well as Killing Time in Crystal City, Little Blue Lies, Pieces, Kill Switch, Angry Young Man, and Inexcusable, which was a National Book Award finalist and the recipient of six starred reviews. Chris is the author of middle grade novel Walkin' the Dog. He holds an MA from the writing program at Emerson College. He teaches in the creative writing MFA program at Lesley University. He lives in Boston and in Scotland.
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: Groundwork
- Chapter 2: Take the Body
- Chapter 3: Monty Got Soul
- Chapter 4: Men at Work
- Chapter 5: The Head
- Chapter 6: Forbidden Archie's
- Chapter 7: Legacy
- Chapter 8: The Devil's Workshop
- Chapter 9: Slipping Grip
- Chapter 10: My Job
- Chapter 11: The Willies
- Chapter 12: Every Man for Himself
- Chapter 13: Fire in the Hole
- Chapter 14: Adam's Apple
- Chapter 15: Footsteps in the Dark
- Chapter 16: A Boy's Best Friend
- Chapter 17: Let It Bleed
- 'Pieces' Excerpt
- About Chris Lynch
- Copyright
