

An edition of The Penalty (2006)
By Mal Peet
Publish Date
August 14, 2007
Publisher
Candlewick
Language
eng
Pages
272
Description:
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.
subjects: Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Slavery, Missing persons, Voodooism, History, Journalists, Soccer, Historical fiction, Soccer stories, Missing persons, fiction, Soccer, fiction, Children's fiction, Vodou, Journalism, fiction, South america, fiction, Slavery, fiction, Authors, fiction
Places: South America
Times: To 1806