Boy O'Boy
By: Brian Doyle.
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Canada -- Juvenile fiction.; Child sexual abuse -- Juvenile fiction.; Ontario -- Social conditions -- 1918-1945 -- Juvenile fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.
Description: Martin O'Boy 's loving grandmother and true friends help him deal with the poverty of Ottawa's Lowertown during the end of World War II, a developmentally delayed twin brother, a mother who is overly dependent on his help, and the abuse he receives at the hands of a church choir leader.
Notes: Ages 9-12.

Canadian Library Association, Book of the year for children.

Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's book award.

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