The Penalty (#2 Paul Faustino)
Author(s): Mal Peet
As the city of San Juan pulses to summer's sluggish beat, its teenage soccer prodigy, El Brujito, the Little Magician, vanishes without a trace-right after he misses a penalty kick and loses a big game for his team. Sports reporter Paul Faustino is reluctantly drawn into the mystery of the athlete's disappearance and, as a story of corruption and murder unfolds, must confront the bitter history of slavery and the power of the occult.
Product Information
Mal Peet (1947-2015) is the acclaimed author of the Carnegie Medal-winning novel Tamar as well as the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book Life: An Exploded Diagram and three Paul Faustino novels: Keeper, The Penalty, and Exposure, a winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. He is also the co-author of Cloud Tea Monkeys, Mysterious Traveler, and Night Sky Dragons, all of which he wrote with his wife, Elspeth Graham.
General Fields
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- : Candlewick Press,U.S.
- : Candlewick Press,U.S.
- : 0.215456
- : 01 November 2016
- : .7 Inches X 5.19 Inches X 7.69 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Mal Peet
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 823.92
- : 272