The penalty

Title
The penalty

Personal Author EPSB
Mal. Peet

Summary
Paul Faustino, known as the best soccer journalist in the business, reluctantly investigates the disappearance of eighteen year old Ricardo, a soccer prodigy known as "El Brujito," while in alternate chapters a slave in old San Juan becomes a powerful voodoo priest.

Year Published
2007

Physical Description
262 p. ; 21 cm.

Program Information
Gr. 9+
 
AGES: 14 & UP

Subject
Missing persons -- Fiction.
 
Journalists -- Fiction.
 
Voodooism -- Fiction.
 
Slavery -- Fiction.
 
Soccer -- Fiction.
 
Historical fiction.

Geographic Term
South America -- Fiction.
 
South America -- History. -- To 1806 -- Fiction.

Genre
Historical fiction.

Summary
Paul Faustino, known as the best soccer journalist in the business, reluctantly investigates the disappearance of eighteen year old Ricardo, a soccer prodigy known as "El Brujito," while in alternate chapters a slave in old San Juan becomes a powerful voodoo priest.

ISBN
9780763633998

Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2007.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Institutional Services SchoolsFIC PEE PAU BK2Book30706000207999Kennedale Fiction