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.
The Power Of One
β Scribed by Courtenay, Bryce
- Book ID
- 106706449
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 351 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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