Robert Lipsyte

An overweight fourteen-year-old boy experiences a turningpoint summer in which he learns to stand up for himself.

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.

Matt Rydeck, co-captain of his high school football team, endures a traumatic season as he witnesses the rape of a rookie player by teammates and grapples with his own use of performance-enhancing drugs.

A long-time sports columnist for the "New York Times" combines personal stories with the events he has covered, discussing how "Jock Culture" has permeated business, politics, and family life, and how its definitions have become the standard to measure value.

Native American boxer of the Moscondaga Nation, Sonny Bear must fight to retain his heavyweight championship title.

Tom is a smart, talented loner with a chip on his shoulder and a big secret: an imaginary twin on another planet. Eddie is Tom's opposite, a friendly, athletic kid who always looks on the good side. Tom worries sometimes: does confiding in Eddie mean he's nuts? The truth is even crazier than that. Eddie and his planet are just as real as Tom and his Earth, but fifty-some years in the past. And the twins are caught up in an alien master plan that might...

When the drugs that he takes as part of his chemotherapy suddenly transform him from wimp into superhero, sixteen-year-old Fred and his friends plot to rid the town of its most lethal environmental hazard, toxic waste in the water supply.

The author offers advice on coping with illness and with communicating and thriving in the hospital setting.

A sportswriter discusses some of the various sporting events he1Ghas covered, including the Met's first spring training, wheelchair track, croquet in London, an eating contest, and the 1968 Olympics.