I am trying to remember a book I read many years ago while still in Nigeria. It's about a very poor child, I think his mum was deceased and his father married a new wife who was mean to him. He went to boarding school and the intimidation and oppression from wealthier classmates was overwhelming for him. I think at the end he overcame these situations. The book must have been published under the african writers series or longman or some press in ibadan. Please if you have any idea of the novel I described please drop your response.Thanks

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I thinks its the village boy can't really remember though.

USAMarshal: I am trying to remember a book I read many years ago while still in Nigeria. It's about a very poor child, I think his mum was deceased and his father married a new wife who was mean to him. He went to boarding school and the intimidation and oppression from wealthier classmates was overwhelming for him. I think at the end he overcame these situations. The book must have been published under the african writers series or longman or some press in ibadan. Please if you have any idea of the novel I described please drop your response.Thanks

Its "Village boy" published by Mcmillan Winners or so.Its about a village boy that managed to pass his common entrance into a major city school.He entered the school and he didn't find it easy at all.Like there was a time he was dipping his bread into a cup of tea(I stopped doing dat after reading the book in primary 6).When the class was to introduce themselves at d beginning of the session,he stood up and said "my name is Josefu Ibe".Everyone bursted into laughter including one mischievous boy dat proved to be Joseph's nemesis all thru d book(I can't rem his name 2gh).He lost his mum while in sch,he bashed his first term exam n was faced wit expelling if it repeats itself in his 3rd term exam.He won the hearts of everyone in the school when he bravely killed a big snake and fearlessly raised it up for all to see(it was the drawing on the front cover).He finally took 18th position in the class n was promoted while dat his 'nemesis' repeated the class.

The book is The Village Boy. It wasn't his mother who died, it was his father b4 he wrote his entrance exam. He had 3 siblings & an uncle called Jude, i have 4gotten his mothers name. I think his friends name was Adamu & Philip can't really remember but d boy dt wouldn't give him peace was Chu boy.