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The power of one / Bryce Courtenay.

Courtenay, Bryce, 1933-2012 (Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780385902748
  • ISBN: 9780385732543
  • ISBN: 0385732546
  • ISBN: 0385902743
  • Physical Description: 291 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: Young readers' condensed edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, 2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary.
Target Audience Note:
010 & up.
940L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning UG 6.9 37
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 6.3 15 102972.

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Subject: Self-confidence > Juvenile fiction.
Conduct of life > Juvenile fiction.
Boxing stories.
Prejudices > Juvenile fiction.
Apartheid > Juvenile fiction.
Prisons > Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > South Africa > Juvenile fiction.
South Africa > History > 1909-1961 > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Teen fiction.

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  • 8 of 8 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Little Dixie Regional.

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