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Author Courtenay, Bryce, 1933-2012.

Title The power of one / Bryce Courtenay.

Publication Info. New York : Delacorte Press, 2005.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA Fic Courte Pow 2005    Available  ---  Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Edition Young readers' condensed ed.
Description 291 pages ; 22 cm
age Children
Audience 010 & up.
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.
Study Program Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning UG 6.9 37.
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.9 37.0.
Provenance Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Subject World War (1939-1945)
Self-confidence -- Juvenile fiction.
Self-confidence.
Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
Conduct of life.
South Africa -- History -- 1909-1961 -- Juvenile fiction.
South Africa.
History.
Chronological Term 1909-1961
Subject Boxing stories.
Boxing stories.
Genre/Form Boxing stories.
Subject Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction.
Prejudices.
Apartheid -- Juvenile fiction.
Apartheid.
Prisons -- Juvenile fiction.
Prisons.
World War, 1939-1945 -- South Africa -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre/Form Young adult fiction.
Young adult works.
Fiction.
History.
Juvenile works.
Fiction.
Other Form: Online version: Courtenay, Bryce, 1933- Power of one. Young readers' condensed ed. New York : Delacorte Press, 2005 (OCoLC)761198876
ISBN 0385732546 (trade)
9780385732543 (trade)
0385902743 (glb)
9780385902748 (glb)