Shadow Boxer

By Chris Lynch

Book Overview

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?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442458119
• ISBN13: 9781442458116
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 12 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 10

Customer Reviews

Awesome story about courage and wisdom.

This book is about a courageous boy named George, who goes through many hardships in his life. When he was just a little boy, he knocked his father, and made him drip blood. But his father wasn't mad, he was happy. This is an excellent story to move your heart. When hardships and friendships intervene with each other. Monty, Geoge's little brother is a young little man, who want to be just like his father was. A great boxing hero. But George doesn't want Monty to die a tradgic death like his father. But the spirit of Monty is too strong. Will George stop Monty? Or will the past repeat itself?

Shadow Boxer -- a mystical student from Westchester

Shadow Boxer is a book in my opinion with mixed emotions. I feel that it is mostly a tragic story. It has humor every now and then about little things like an elephant man. In this book, the characters are misled about their father. The kids grow up thinking that their father is one of the best boxers there ever was, but later in the story they find out that he isn't that great of a boxer. I also think that George (one of the main characters) loses a large, important, part of his life growing up being considered as the man of the house. I feel that it was a large weight put on his shoulder at the young age that he has. To me this book is very realistic. The author realy makes the characters come alive, and you can really feel the emotins that author discribes.

Sad, and tragic

This book, really hit the spot. As I read it to my...brother, he even cried. Although, he didn't understand a thing. Chris Lynch made is so sad, funny and everything else a person can want. A boys life, as boxing makes it go down, and all the other side stories

Shadow Boxer

Shawdow Boxer By Chris Lynch 5 Stars If you like fighting well yuor in for the time of your life you should read SHADOW BOXER. its about two brothers one hyperactive and the other street smart. THe h two brothers try to surive since thier father died in a boxing accident and their mom is left to take care of them when the two brothers get into fights thier mom gets them a big brother to help them but this big brother makes Monty(hyperactive kid) curious about boxing and what his dad did and now George must stop monty from suffering the same faith his dad did! or will monty tun out like his father.(I guess like father like son)