description: No stranger to the injustice of racial hatred, five-year-old Peekay learns the hard way the first secret of survival and self-preservation - the power of one. An encounter with amateur boxer Hoppie Groenewald inspires in Peekay a fiery ambition - to be welterweight champion of the world.
language: English
title: The Power of One
titlecomplete: The Power of One
characters: "Doc" Bradley Stanwick, Mrs. Boxall, The Judge, Morris Levy, Geel Piet, Peekay, Miss Bornstein
genres: Coming Of Age, Historical Fiction, Historical, Africa, South Africa, Novels, Young Adult, Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 87547
places: South Africa
series: The Power of One
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA)
category: Older Readers
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd