Boy O'Boy 4992440 206871757 2008-04-20T12:16:55Z JzG 760284 cleaning up after move war using [[Project:AutoWikiBrowser|AWB]] {{infobox Book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --> | name = Boy O'Boy | title_orig = | translator = | image = [[Image:Boy-o'boy.jpg|200px|''Boy O'Boy'' book cover]] | image_caption = First edition cover | author = Brian Doyle | cover_artist = | country = [[United States]] | language = [[English language|English]] | series = | genre = [[Young adult novel]] | publisher = [[Douglas & McIntyre]] | release_date = September 2003 | media_type = Print ([[Paperback]] & [[Hardcover|Hardback]]) | pages = 162 pp (first edition, paperback) | isbn = ISBN 0-88899-590-3 (first edition, paperback) | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''Boy O'Boy''''' is a [[novel]] by Brian Doyle, written for [[young adult literature|young adults]]. Martin O'Boy, nicknamed Boy O’Boy, is the 11- or 12-year-old narrator of this story set the summer of [[1945]]. Martin reflects on the ups and downs of his family and neighbours, news from the [[World War II|war]] and the popular culture of the day, including [[Captain Marvel (DC Comics)|Captain Marvel]] (who shares his name with Martin's friend Billy Batson). Martin is [[mentor|mentored]] by the church [[organist]] who is a [[pedophilia|paedophile]]. Martin is [[child sexual abuse|molested]] by the organist who then moves in on Billy. The two boys take their revenge on the man by sabotaging his showpiece at a celebration of the war's end. Martin later confesses what has happened to him to a soldier, a neighbour just returned from the war, who immediately confronts the organist and threatens him if he ever approaches either boy again. ==See also== *[[Pedophilia]] *[[List of books portraying paedophilia or sexual abuse of minors]] [[Category:2003 novels]] [[Category:American novels]] [[Category:Young adult novels]]