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The Penalty
By Peet, Mal
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-76363-399-8
- Publisher
- Candlewick
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2007
Gr 10-Up Eighteen-year-old Ricardo Gomes de Barros's extraordinary soccer skills have garnered him fame, but his disappearance after a critical game leads sportswriter Paul Faustino to investigate. When Faustino asks too many questions, he is kidnapped and taken into the rural countryside where Barros grew up; there he learns of the ancestor worship and "Veneration" that the displaced slaves brought with them to the New World. The narrative is divided between Paracleto, a Loma slave of the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2007
After an eighteen-year-old soccer star is kidnapped, South American sportswriter Paul Faustino discovers that superstition, police corrupti...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
