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Summary: Takes place right where the Contender left off.
Review: Having read the Contender in reading class, I still had many questions at the end. Once I found the sequel,The Brave, I couldn't put it down. I would stay up late reading until I couldn't read any more. This book got me reading a lot more. Now I can't wait to read The Chief. I recommend this book to everyone. This would be a great book to read in class. It is The Contender, only better. If you read The Contender you must read this book. If you like The Contender and The Brave read The Outsiders and Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton. I guarantee you will like them too.
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Summary: The Brave critique
Review: I give this book a rating of 4 stars. The reason why I give this book a four star rating is because its nothing like I have read before. The story line was great and the scenes were really good. This author went to the best in detail. This book really painted an image of New York like as if I were really there. It also had a lot of good action in it and I liked it how the author described the fights in the rings. Especially all the people. I really liked this book because of how the author wrote it. Of course I gave it a four star because often times I could not undrstand different things that the Author of the book was saying. Some Star Wars books by the very skilled author Kevin J. Anderson are also similar to this in detail but otherwise I have never seen anything like it. I guess I really liked it because it gave a lot of detail on how all the people looked and also what they had said. But also it showed much action in the ring. It also listed many things the main character saw. So I guess you can say that I really liked this book because of all the detail so that is why I give it 4 stars.
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Summary: Oridnary Tale
Review: Robert Lipsyte delivers an ordinary tale of a Native American boxer who travels to the big city in order to pursue a more extravagant life than that which he leads in the reservation, in his story, The Brave. This story is too similar to the first to be considered amazing. Sonny encounters practically the same dilemmas that Alfred Brooks did and the only real difference is that this story follows a Native American rather than an African American. The same issues of racism are tackled and the over-all story is one heard over and over again and Lipsyte does not introduce enough of his own style and twists to make it anything more than a decent book. For the young reader, I would suggest this in that it delivers a good message, but for those seeking any kind of challenge or real entertainment, this book is not for you.
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Summary: A Great Sequel to The Contender
Review: Sonny Bear is a 17-year-old boxer who boxes in "smoke houses". A smoke house is a house where people bet on boxers that are "professional." His uncle, Jake, is a moscondaha Indian just like Sonny. As Sonny boxes, a farmer boy with blond hair is the first one to beat him. He the hitch-hikes to the The Deuce in New York to see his mother. When he gets there, he is met by an escaped convict from prison named stick and a 17-year-old hottie named Doll. While they are walking up and down The Deuce, an octet of cops attack Sonny and Stick then grabs his wallet and runs off with it. While Sonny is in jail, he is confronted by Sergeant Brooks, a former Harlem boxer that decided to be a cop. While Brooks is asking him questions, he finds out that Sonnt is a boxer and decides to train him to be #1 champion he possibly could be. Brooks tells him about Donatelli's Gym and the story about when he was boxing. Next, he starts training to win the Golden Gloves Award. AS he proceeds in the tournament, he is next to face Brooks' arch rival's son
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Summary: The Brave = Good Book!
Review: The book that I chose to read was titled The Brave by Robert Lipsyte. This book was really good and I enjoyed it. To be honest it was the best book I read in a while. People that are into action, drama, a little comedy, etc, should really check it out. You will get caught up in it and you will not wan't to stop reading. The Brave is very good on giving descriptions and telling how it relates to reality. Especially when racism is involved. The story revolves around Sunny, a half American, half Indian struggling to stay alive in the world. This story shows just how Sunny stays alive and how he searches for his mother on the way. The one good thing about Sunny is his boxing skills. He doesn't like the enviroment that he is in while he was boxing, so he moved away from the racist people to New York gainning more trouble there than he did back home. This book has everything that someone could want in a story including action,fighting, drama, etc. This is a very good written story and has very good details within the story. Robert Lipsyte is a very talented author who has quite a bit of respect from me now that I have read his work. Even though this is a great book there still are some weaknesses within the plot. Sometimes the author changes the position of the story so fast that it is hard to tell. An example is when Sunny and his friend Doll are in the pizza place and then it says he is in the store that was across the street earlier on, and it made me get somewhat confused and have to go back and re-read what had happend. The Brave is a book that I can't stop talking about and I hope that every book fan goes and checks this out.
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Summary: The Brave = Good Book!
Review: The book that I chose to read was titled The Brave by Robert Lipsyte. This book was really good and I enjoyed it. To be honest it was the best book I read in a while. People that are into action, drama, a little comedy, etc, should really check it out. You will get caught up in it and you will not wan't to stop reading. The Brave is very good on giving descriptions and telling how it relates to reality. Especially when racism is involved. The story revolves around Sunny, a half American, half Indian struggling to stay alive in the world. This story shows just how Sunny stays alive and how he searches for his mother on the way. The one good thing about Sunny is his boxing skills. He doesn't like the enviroment that he is in while he was boxing, so he moved away from the racist people to New York gainning more trouble there than he did back home. This book has everything that someone could want in a story including action,fighting, drama, etc. This is a very good written story and has very good details within the story. Robert Lipsyte is a very talented author who has quite a bit of respect from me now that I have read his work. Even though this is a great book there still are some weaknesses within the plot. Sometimes the author changes the position of the story so fast that it is hard to tell. An example is when Sunny and his friend Doll are in the pizza place and then it says he is in the store that was across the street earlier on, and it made me get somewhat confused and have to go back and re-read what had happend. The Brave is a book that I can't stop talking about and I hope that every book fan goes and checks this out.
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Summary: The Book You Will Remeber for a lifetime November 09,2001
Review: The Brave is a story about native American boy who wants to be a boxer. He also wants to find his mother. He goes to New York to do both, but gets distracted by two hustlers. I think it was a good story, but it left a lot of things unanswered. It had too many loose ends and never said what happened to a lot of characters. A good book ties everything up. I think a lot of people would like this story. It is a good book if you like to read about boxing, native Americans, or anything else.
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Summary: Native American Boy Learns about Life in New York
Review: The Brave is a story about native American boy who wants to be a boxer. He also wants to find his mother. He goes to New York to do both, but gets distracted by two hustlers. I think it was a good story, but it left a lot of things unanswered. It had too many loose ends and never said what happened to a lot of characters. A good book ties everything up. I think a lot of people would like this story. It is a good book if you like to read about boxing, native Americans, or anything else.
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Summary: The Book You Will Remeber for a lifetime November 09,2001
Review: This book is awesome! I am the kind of person who hates to read. I usually stop reading books whenever I can, but I couldn't put this book down. I am almost tempted to go check out the book and read it again just for the heck of it. The title is not very catchy THE BRAVE. I mean come on who wants to read a book with that kind of a title, but dont let that discourage you. This book is about a boxer named Sonny Bear who lives on a reservation near Sparta. Sonny somehow winds up in the middle of a big crack war in New York City. Then Sonny meets Brooks and Spoon which are his key to the heavyweight title. So if you want to see if Sonny becomes the heavyweight champ you will have to go read the book for yourself.
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Summary: the best book
Review: This book is superb this is better than any other book I have ever read. It is about a kid named sonny that loves to box he want to find his mother in the big city, once he is there he finds two hustlers that take his wallet then a undercover cop try's to get one but sonny nails him with a hook. So the hustlers get him a place to live then Sonny somehow winds up in the middle of a big crack war in New York City that is driving him crazy and all he wants to do is try to see his mother. IF U DONT READ IT YOU WOULD REGET IT.
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