- Published: New York : Delacorte Press, [2005], c1989.
- Year Published: 1989
- Edition: Young readers' condensed ed.
- Description: 291 p. ; 22 cm.
- Language: English
- Format: Book
ISBN/Standard Number
- 0440239133
- 0385732546 (trade) :
- 0385902743 (glb)
- 09780385732543
Subjects
- Self-confidence -- Fiction.
- Boxing -- Fiction.
- Prejudices -- Fiction.
- Apartheid -- Fiction.
- Prisons -- Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction. -- South Africa
- South Africa -- Fiction. -- History -- 1909-1961
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Call number: Teen Fiction
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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.
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