The Power of One
By Bryce Courtenay
Publisher
Delacorte
Imprint
Delacorte
ISBN
By Bryce Courtenay
0385902743
The Power of One
5
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SKU
9780385902748J
In 1939 in South Africa, five-year-old Peekay is sent away to boarding school. The youngest and only English student among Afrikaners, he suffers torment by classmates and beatings from the schoolmistress. Then one day he crosses paths with a welterweight champion named Hoppie Groenewald, who lets the boy try on his boxing gloves. "The gloves felt like old friends, big yes, and very clumsy, but not strangers." Peekay had found "the equalisers." Library edition with trade jacket added.
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Young Adult (Grades 9 & Up)
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