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Author Courtenay, Bryce, 1933-2012.

Title The power of one / Bryce Courtenay.

Publication Info. New York : Laurel-Leaf Books, 2007.
©1989

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  FICTION COURTENAY, BRYCE    Assumed Lost
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F COURTENAY    Check Shelf
Edition Young readers' condensed edition.
Description 373 pages ; 18 cm
Note "First Laurel-Leaf edition"--T.p. 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"--T.p. verso.
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.
Audience 5.8
Subject Self-confidence -- Juvenile fiction.
Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
South Africa -- History -- 1909-1961 -- 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.
South Africa -- History -- 1909-1961 -- Fiction.
Boxing -- Fiction.
Prejudices -- Fiction.
Apartheid -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
ISBN 0440239133
9780440239130
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