The Boxer

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I guess the reason for this is because the book is fairly short, but I don't think it would do any harm to have it a little longer in detail. Very pertinent subject, looking at the huge impact a racist attack has on a teenage boy and how they managed to overcome the feeling they were to blame. The workers were kept in a position where they never earned enough money to pay for food or accommodation. uk/landing-page/hachette-childrens-group/privacy-notice-young-adults-hcg/">Privacy Notice for 13 – 17 year olds here. This simple statement in plain language shows why he would never take power from the pigs - he is too trusting and perhaps too simple to question the decisions the pigs make.

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He finds the community he's been desperately seeking at the club, and a mentor in trainer Shona, who helps him find his place in the world.Interwoven with his story is a boxing match from the future between Keir and Sunny, supposedly friends at the start but the reader soon learns this may not be the case in the futures.

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thinks Sunny Shah, protagonist of Nikesh Shukla’s latest novel, The Boxer, following a racist attack at a train station on his way home from college. In 2017 he won the UK's School Librarian of the Year award and in 2022 he was named the UK Literacy Association's Reading For Pleasure Teacher Champion. Instead of it being about learning to beat the shit out antagonists, Sunny finds boxing, to him, is about confidently taking up your own space, finding community and knowing what - and who - truly matters in the end.

I really enjoyed learning more about the sport through the discussion on how it’s not at all about hurting each other in the ring but about taking up space – which is quite ironic as Sunny is a quiet kid who would much rather not be seen but struggles to blend in or hide because of his skin colour. But racial tensions are rising in the city, and when a Far Right march through Bristol turns violent, Sunny is faced with losing his new best friend Keir to radicalisation. This second YA novel from UK author Nikesh Shukla stems from the author’s own experience of a racist incident on the last train home to Bristol.