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.
Genres
- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945
- Children
- Conduct of life
- Prisons
- Apartheid
- Boxing
- Prejudices
- Self-confidence
- History
- Boxing stories
- Juvenile fiction
- Historical Fiction
- Sports
- South africa, fiction
- Fiction, war & military
- World war, 1939-1945, fiction
- Adventure and adventurers
- Afrikaners
- Success in children
- Boarding schools
- Courage
- Loneliness
- War stories
- History, 1909-1961
- SOUTH AFRICA
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