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The power of one

Title:

The power of one

Author:

Courtenay, Bryce, 1933-2012.

ISBN:

9780440239130

Personal Author:

Courtenay, Bryce, 1933-2012.

Edition:

Young readers' condensed ed.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

373 pages ; 18 cm

General Note:

"First Laurel-Leaf edition"--Title page verso.

"Unabridged version first published in hardcover in Australia by William Heinemann in 1989. Condensed version originally published in hardcover in Australia by Penguin Books, Ltd, Sydney, in 1999"--Title page verso.

Abstract:

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.

Reading Level:

5.8.

Subject Term:

Self-confidence -- Juvenile fiction.

Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.

Boxing stories.

Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction.

Apartheid -- Juvenile fiction.

World War, 1939-1945 -- South Africa -- Juvenile fiction.

Self-confidence -- Fiction.

Conduct of life -- Fiction.

Boxing -- Fiction.

Prejudices -- Fiction.

Apartheid -- Fiction.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

South Africa -- History -- 1909-1961 -- Juvenile fiction.

South Africa -- History -- 1909-1961 -- Fiction.

Copies:

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Library	Material Type	Item Barcode	Shelf Number	Copy	Status
Searching... 1:IIEMSA	1:GEN-BOOK	33168025796547	823.3 C863P 1989	1	Searching... Unknown
Searching... 1:IIEMSA	1:GEN-BOOK	33168025796554	823.3 C863P 1989	2	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

In 1939, hatred took root in South Africa, where the seeds of apartheid were newly sown. There a boy called Peekay was born. He spoke the wrong language-English. He was nursed by a woman of the wrong color-black. His childhood was marked by humiliation and abandonment. Yet he vowed to survive-he would become welterweight champion of the world, he would dream heroic dreams.
But his dreams were nothing compared to what awaited him. For he embarked on an epic journey, where he would learn the power of words, the power to transform lives, and the mystical power that would sustain him even when it appeared that villainy would rule the world: The Power of One.