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1406331120 
Hardback Beck / Mal Peet with Meg Rosoff.
Publication year: 2016
Media class: Hardback
Category: Fiction
Publisher: London : Walker Books, 2016.
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9781406331127 (hbk.) :
Available: 1
Number of reservations: 0
Description:
Born from a street liason between a poor young woman and an African soldier in the 1900s, Beck is soon orphaned and sent to the Catholic Brothers in Canada. Shipped to work on a farm, his escape takes him across the continent in search for belonging. Enduring abuse and many hardships, Beck has times of comfort and encouragement, eventually finding Grace, the woman with whom he can finally forge his life and shape his destiny as a young man.
14+.
Adolescent.
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