Shadow Boxer -- a mystical student from Westchester

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	• Shadow Boxer Chris Lynch Peter Smith Publisher, 1997 average customer review:based on 9 reviews
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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.

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Shadow Boxer

Shadow Boxer by Chris Lynch was a great book for the younger teenage audience. This heartfelt story is about an older brother trying to guide and show his younger brother the way because their father is not around to do it. Their father died several years before from boxing and Monty, the youngest of the two brothers had caught the boxing bug. George, his mother, and the boys uncle Archy do everything they can to get Monty out of the ring. In the end they expose him to the truth to bring him back to reality.
The story takes place in inner city New York and deals with many of the hardships that inner city youth face. The boys are introduced to a ?big brother? because there mom fears it may be the only way to save Monty and that it may do the boys some good. George takes this offensively because it makes him feel as though he has screwed up on raising his younger brother who assumes responsibility for.
I would recommend reading this book because it is an easy read for the high school level and it is a really great book. From the beginning you connect with the characters and really get an understanding for why they are the way they are. As an older brother I really enjoyed seeing how George felt the responsibility for his younger brother and always wanted to protect him.

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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?

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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

Boxing and Growing Up

When he was nine and his brother Monty was seven, George's father died from a brain hemorrhage due to years of boxing. Before he died, he spent a lot of time with George, teaching him life lessons, lessons about fighting and about learning the right way not to have to fight. George took these lessons seriously, and after his father died he vowed to watch out for Monty and to make sure these same lessons were passed along.

Everything was easy when Monty was little and looked up to George. But now that he is eleven, he is beginning to think for himself and to question his big brother's words. The most problematic issue is that Monty seems to be far too interested in boxing for George's or their mother's taste. He doesn't remember how his father's mind went in the end and what boxing did to him; he only thinks of his father as some sort of hero. George is terrified that his little brother will turn out like their father did. But how can he make Monty see the truth about boxing without making their father look bad?

I liked that this novel was told in short stories, most of them not about boxing, but all of which gave a well-rounded picture of what the relationship was between George and Monty. I also liked that this was a novel about discovery and growing up, instead of just being about boxing as I had expected.

I thought that George was a bit mean and overbearing, though. I can understand that he was trying to protect his brother, but if I were Monty, I would not have stood for his telling me what to do for as long as Monty did.

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After their father dies of boxing injuries, George is determined to prevent his younger brother, who sees boxing as his legacy, from pursuing a career in the sport.

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