The penalty
By: Mal Peet
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780763633998; 9780763643393
Subjects: Journalists; Soccer stories; Juvenile fiction; Slavery; Fiction; Historical fiction; Missing persons; Voodooism; Soccer; History
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.
Notes: Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning UG 5.4 8.