Now is the time for running

Description:

When soldiers attack a small village in Zimbabwe, Deo goes on the run with Innocent, his older, mentally disabled brother, carrying little but a leather soccer ball filled with money, and after facing prejudice, poverty, and tragedy, it is in soccer that Deo finds renewed hope.

subjects: Fiction,  Brothers,  Blacks,  Survival,  People with mental disabilities,  Homeless persons,  Soccer,  Refugees,  Soccer stories,  Juvenile fiction,  Mentally handicapped,  Reading Level-Grade 9,  Reading Level-Grade 11,  Reading Level-Grade 10,  Reading Level-Grade 12,  Children's fiction,  Refugees, fiction,  People with mental disabilities, fiction,  Survival, fiction,  Homeless persons, fiction,  Soccer, fiction,  Blacks, fiction,  Zimbabwe, fiction

Places: Zimbabwe