Peet, Mal

The penalty / Mal Peet. - Cambridge, Mass : Candlewick Press, 2007. - 259 p.

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.



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Missing persons--Fiction
Journalists--Fiction
Voodooism--Fiction
Slavery--Fiction
Soccer--Fiction


South America--History--Fiction--To 1806
South America--Fiction