It's a biographical novel, its a novel in verse. Cassius Clay was just a kid growing up in Louisville, Kentucky in the 1950s. Patterson frames the story in prose written as a friend of Cassius, and Alexander adds the verse in Cassius' voice. Together they tell the story of the proud Clay family, and a young boy's trouble at school, growing awareness of the racism around him, and most of all, his drive to become the greatest. At the age of twelve his prized bike is stolen and Cassius discovers a gym where young boxers train. The book reveals the drive and passion that took him to Chicago for victory in the Golden Gloves and to Rome for an Olympic Gold Medal.
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