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Fighting Ruben Wolfe
by Markus Zusak

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Fighting Ruben Wolfe
Markus Zusak

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List Price: €8.00
Format: Paperback, 198 x 129 x 14mm, 224pp
Publication date: 28 Jan 2010
Publisher: Definitions
ISBN-13: 9781862309579

Dubray Review

Cam and Ruben are best friends; they are also the Wolfe brothers. Cam is the quiet one who gets the good grades but never gets the girl. Ruben – the one with the looks and the charm – always gets the girl. Their Dad has lost his job but is too proud to go on the dole; their Mom is trying her best to hold the family together; and rumours about their sister Sarah are flying around school. A family of fighters, they have to fight to survive on a daily basis. For the Wolfe brothers, fighting is about more than money – it’s a way of life.

When a schoolyard brawl breaks out, a witness makes Ruben an offer to earn some money from fighting in the ring. Ruben agrees on one condition: that Cam gets to fight alongside. Ruben can fight but Cam is the one with heart. The fight becomes about pride and self-worth, about something more than letting life kick you when you’re down. You have to grow up and discover who you really are.

From the author of The Book Thief, this is a brilliant book that can be enjoyed by anyone who likes a well-written, touching story – a story that could be about any one of our families’ struggle to find our place in the world.

- Edwina Boyce, Stillorgan

 

Synopsis

Keep it clean, fellas. Fair fight. Okay. Do it. Don't go down. If you go down, get up. The bell, the fists, the fight. It begins, and the first round is death. The second round is the coffin. The third is the funeral. The Wolfe brothers know how to fight - they've been fighting all their lives. Now there's more at stake than just winning.