Sports reporter Paul Faustino reluctantly investigates the disappearance of a young soccer star from San Juan who has not been seen since he missed a winning penalty kick during a big game, and unknowingly the journalist becomes entangled in a world of slavery and the occult.
year: 2007
call number/section: 1000
subjects: mystery and detective stories, soccer, fiction, occult fiction, slavery, mystery fiction, south america, fiction, missing persons, journalists, vodou, history, to 1806, soccer stories, voodooism, historical fiction, historical fiction
Editions
Peet, Mal
Candlewick Press (2007)
Sports reporter Paul Faustino reluctantly investigates the disappearance of a young soccer star from San Juan who has not been seen since he missed a winning penalty kick during a big game, and unknowingly the journalist becomes entangled in a world of slavery and the occult.
Schools: 10
Peet, Mal
Paul Faustino, known as the best soccer journalist in the business, investigates the disappearance of eighteen-year-old Ricardo, a soccer prodigy known as "El Brujito," while in alternate chapters a slave becomes a powerful voodoo priest.
Schools: 1
Peet, Mal
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.
Schools: 1