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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.

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

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Target Audience Note:
010 & up.
940L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 6.3 15 102972.
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning UG 6.9 37

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

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  • 4 of 5 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 0 of 0 copies available at McDowell County Public Library.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Hampton B. Allen Library YA FIC COURTENAY (Text) 18198000394058 Young Adult Fiction Available -
Lewisville Branch YA Courtenay, Bryce (Text) 0112516043240 Young Adult Fiction Available -
Manteo Library YA F COU (Text) 39488300665488 Young Adult Fiction Available -
Trenton Public Library J COURTENAY (Text) 39149005917950 Juvenile Fiction Available -
Valdese Public Library F Courtenay (Text) 33557003790615 Adult Fiction In transit -

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