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1989
The power of one
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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.
Creators
History
Sports
Children
Fiction
Historical fiction
Prejudices
adventure and adventurers
Conduct of life
JUVENILE FICTION
World War, 1939-1945
Fiction, war & military
War stories
Courage
Loneliness
South africa, fiction
Prisons
Boarding schools
South Africa
Boxing stories
World War, 1939-1945 / Fiction
Apartheid
Boxing
Self-confidence
History, 1909-1961
Afrikaners
Success in children
