Becoming Muhammad Ali by Patterson, James 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2020)

BTSB #: 050111 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.4 MG RC: 8.6 6-8 Lexile: 1010

Genres: Historical Fiction Sports Family Life

Subjects: Ali, Muhammad,|d1942-2016 - Childhood and youth - Fiction Family life - Fiction Boxing - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Segregation - Fiction Louisville (Ky.) - Fiction

Summary: A fictionalized biography of Muhammad Ali when he was a child.

Becoming Muhammad Ali by Patterson, James 

Paperback(Little, Brown, 2020)

BTSB #: 703593 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.4 MG RC: 8.6 6-8 Lexile: 1010

Genres: Historical Fiction Sports Family Life

Subjects: Ali, Muhammad,|d1942-2016 - Childhood and youth - Fiction Family life - Fiction Boxing - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Segregation - Fiction Louisville (Ky.) - Fiction

Summary: A fictionalized biography of Muhammad Ali when he was a child.

Becoming Muhammad Ali : a novel by Patterson, James 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2020)

BTSB #: P08533 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction Sports Family Life

Subjects: Ali, Muhammad,|d1942-2016 - Childhood and youth. - Fiction Boxing - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Family life - Fiction Segregation - Fiction Louisville (Ky.) - Fiction

Summary: A fictionalized biography of Muhammad Ali when he was a child.

Berlin Boxing Club by Sharenow, Rob 

Paperback(HarperTeen, 2011)

BTSB #: 806902 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 5.7 MG+RC: 5.7 9-12 Lexile: 880

Genres:

Subjects: Schmeling, Max,|d1905-2005 - Fiction Family life - Fiction Boxing - Fiction Nazis - Fiction Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Germany - Fiction

Summary: Karl Stern, 14, considered Jewish despite a non-religious upbringing, learns to box from Max Schmeling in the midst of the Holocaust.

Contender by Lipsyte, Robert 

Paperback(Harper, 2018)

BTSB #: 578811 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 13-17   
AR: 4.5 UG RC: 6.1 6-8 Lexile: 690 F&P: Z

Genres: Sports

Subjects: Boxing - Fiction African Americans - Fiction

Summary: A Harlem high school dropout escapes from a gang of punks into a boxing gym, where he learns that being a contender is hard and often discouraging work, but that you don't know anything until you try.

Fist for Joe Louis and me [Tales of young Americans series]by Noble, Trinka Hakes 

BTSB Prebound(Sleeping Bear Press, 2019)

BTSB #: 677956 Available

Dewey: EAges: 6-8   
Lexile: 610

Genres: Historical Fiction

Subjects: Friendship - Fiction Boxing - Fiction Family life - Michigan - Detroit - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Germans - Michigan - Fiction Jews - United States - Fiction Detroit (Mich.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In Depression-era Detroit, Gordy and Ira, one African-American and one German-Jewish, bond over a shared interest in boxing as America awaits the rematch between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling.

Power of one by Courtenay, Bryce 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2009)

BTSB #: P00750 Available

Dewey: FAges: 13-18   


Genres:

Subjects: Self-confidence - Fiction Conduct of life - Fiction Boxing - Fiction

Summary: Follows Peekay, a white British boy in South Africa during World War II, between the ages of five and eleven, as he survives an abusive boarding school and goes on to succeed in life and the boxing ring, with help from a chicken, a boxer, a pianist, black African prisoners, and many others.