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This is the second novel from Mal Peet that features Paul Faustino (the first was Keeper) South America’s top sports journalist. It’s a brilliant thriller, beautifully written and the author’s passion for football shines through in the writing. If you’re football mad or want to be a journalist, don’t look further than this book for inspiration. Now available in audio CD. The first in the trilogy is Keeper and the final one is Exposure.
Shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2007.
In the second of the Paul Faustino novels by Carnegie Medal-winning author Mal Peet, teenage football prodigy El Brujito, the Little Magician , has vanished without a trace and Paul finds himself reluctantly drawn into the mystery. As the city of San Juan pulses to summer's sluggish beat, Paul gets more than he bargained for as a story of corruption and murder unfolds, forcing him to confront a bitter history of slavery and the power of the occult.
'Glorious, cartwheeling, magical, frightening' Frank Cottrell Boyce, The Guardian
'The Penalty weaves together slavery, tribal magic and themes of modern-day corruption... Notable for its exceptional humanity, stylistic clarity and neat construction.' The Sunday Times
'Another superb read from a master storyteller.' The Bookseller
'Physical, spiritual - Arthurian, even - this is true enchantment' TES
ISBN: 9781406370577
Publication date: 07/04/2016
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781406370577
Publication date: 05/01/2012
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
| ISBN: | 9781406370577 |
| Publication date: | 7th April 2016 |
| Author: | Mal Peet |
| Publisher: | Walker Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Suitable for: | 13+ readers, YA readers |
| Genres: | Fantasy / Magical |
| Recommendations: | eBooks |
| Other Categories: | World Cup 2018, Books for Boys |
Mal Peet (June 1947 – 2 March 2015), winner of the Nestle Bronze Medal Award and the Branford Boase Award grew up in North Norfolk, and studied English and American Studies at the University of Warwick. Later he moved to south-west England and worked at a variety of jobs before turning full-time to writing and illustrating in the early 1990s. With his wife, Elspeth Graham, he wrote and illustrated many educational picture books for young children, and his cartoons appeared in a number of magazines. He and Elspeth lived in Exmouth, Devon. Tamar won the Carnegie Medal and is a multi-layered tale of ...
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