num_pages: 533
description: "Unabashedly uplifting."THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALERSet in a world torn apart, where man enslaves his fellow man and freedom remains elusive, THE POWER OF ONE is the moving story of one young man's search for the love that binds friends, the passion that binds lovers, and the realization that it takes only one to change the world. A weak and friendless boy growing up in South Africa during World War II, Peekay turns to two older men, one black and one white, to show him how to find the courage to dream, to succeed, to triumph over a world when all seems lost, and to inspire him to summon up the most irrersistible force of the Power of One.
language: English
title: The Power of One
titlecomplete: The Power of One
characters: Peekay, "Doc" Bradley Stanwick, Miss Bornstein, Mrs. Boxall, Morris Levy, The Judge, Geel Piet
genres: Fiction, South Africa, Classics, Coming Of Age, Young Adult, Historical, Historical Fiction, Africa, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 87548
places: South Africa
series: The Power of One
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA)
category: Older Readers
publisher: Ballantine Books