separated from parents/learns to box
Dates: 3/20/01,10:35 AM through 3/27/01,9:47 PM (8 postings)
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FROM: [removed]@mln.lib.ma.us
REC'D: 3/20/01, 10:35 AM
This is the book she is looking for:
It's a big fat book about a boy who is separated from his parents. He meets up with a
man who becomes his mentor and teaches him about life in general and in particular how
to box. She's pretty sure the book takes place around the beginning of World War II.
She loved the book and wants to recommend it to her son.
Hope you can help us!
TIA,
Megan Flynn
Wellesley Free Library
Wellesley MA
FROM: Diana Tixier Herald <[removed]@wic.net>
REC'D: 3/20/01, 10:47 AM
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Happy reading,
Di Herald
[removed]@wic.net see the Genrefluent page at http://www.genrefluent.com
Rosenberg's First Law of Reading "Never apologize for your reading tastes."
[removed]@mln.lib.ma.us wrote:
> Hi... one of our circulation staff asked me this morning if I could identify this book.
> I could not, but I promised her I would post it on Fiction_L.
>
> This is the book she is looking for:
>
> It's a big fat book about a boy who is separated from his parents. He meets up with a
> man who becomes his mentor and teaches him about life in general and in particular how
> to box. She's pretty sure the book takes place around the beginning of World War II.
> She loved the book and wants to recommend it to her son.
>
> Hope you can help us!
>
> TIA,
>
> Megan Flynn
> Wellesley Free Library
> Wellesley MA
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: snoep <[removed]@triad.rr.com>
REC'D: 3/20/01, 10:47 AM
[removed]@mln.lib.ma.us wrote:
> Hi... one of our circulation staff asked me this morning if I could identify this book.
> I could not, but I promised her I would post it on Fiction_L.
>
> This is the book she is looking for:
>
> It's a big fat book about a boy who is separated from his parents. He meets up with a
> man who becomes his mentor and teaches him about life in general and in particular how
> to box. She's pretty sure the book takes place around the beginning of World War II.
> She loved the book and wants to recommend it to her son.
>
tee
Temperance wasn't going to let him slam the door on her again. Slickly, she slid under his
arm and into the room. The light she'd seen was no fire. There was a single candle on a
rough wooden table that sat before a fireplace that looked as though it hadn't been lit
since Edward I came through Scotland. p46
A quote from my current read DEVERAUX, Jude Temptation, 2000.
FROM: "Nora M. Armstrong" <[removed]@clsn1269.cumberland.lib.nc.us>
REC'D: 3/20/01, 10:58 AM
Nora Armstrong
Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center
Fayetteville, NC
(910)483-7878, FAX (910)486-6661
[removed]@cumberland.lib.nc.us
FROM: [removed]@mln.lib.ma.us
REC'D: 3/20/01, 10:58 AM
Megan Flynn
Wellesley Free Library
Wellesley MA
FROM: [removed]@edmail.com
REC'D: 3/20/01, 11:08 AM
Kathy Shannon
Thornwood H.S.
South Holland, IL
On Tue, 20 March 2001, [removed]@mln.lib.ma.us wrote:
>
> Hi... one of our circulation staff asked me this morning if I could identify this book.
> I could not, but I promised her I would post it on Fiction_L.
>
> This is the book she is looking for:
>
> It's a big fat book about a boy who is separated from his parents. He meets up with a
> man who becomes his mentor and teaches him about life in general and in particular how
> to box. She's pretty sure the book takes place around the beginning of World War II.
> She loved the book and wants to recommend it to her son.
>
> Hope you can help us!
>
> TIA,
>
>
> Megan Flynn
> Wellesley Free Library
> Wellesley MA
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
FROM: Gary Niebuhr <[removed]@mcfls.org>
REC'D: 3/20/01, 1:27 PM
[Gary Niebuhr] The book you are looking for is The Power of One by Bryce
Courtenay. A young English boy named Peekay is taught to be a man by
learning boxing from a South African teacher. We used it in a book
discussion series called Men's Coming of Age Novels. This book was also
filmed, and the film is quite good as well.
Gary Warren Niebuhr
Greendale Public Library
FROM: Tracey Morsek <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 3/27/01, 9:47 PM
Here's an annotation from the National Library Service
for the Blind's catalog:
"A novel portraying the rich mix of nationalities and
race in the South Africa of 1939, and describing how
one small boy learns to survive. Peekay is sent to
boarding school at age five, when his mother has a
nervous breakdown. The only English boy, he is hated
by the other children, all Africaners. A kindly train
conductor, Hoppie, teaches Peekay to box and to use
"the power of one." Some strong language. For high
school and older readers."
As I recall, it was quite thick (much thicker than THE
CONTENDER!)
Hope this helps,
Tracey Morsek
Carnegie Library for the Blind & Physically
Handicapped
--- [removed]@mln.lib.ma.us wrote:
> Hi... one of our circulation staff asked me this
> morning if I could identify this book.
> I could not, but I promised her I would post it on
> Fiction_L.
>
> This is the book she is looking for:
>
> It's a big fat book about a boy who is separated
> from his parents. He meets up with a
> man who becomes his mentor and teaches him about
> life in general and in particular how
> to box. She's pretty sure the book takes place
> around the beginning of World War II.
> She loved the book and wants to recommend it to her
> son.
>
> Hope you can help us!
>
> TIA,
>
>
> Megan Flynn
> Wellesley Free Library
> Wellesley MA
>
>
......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L:
http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
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