The Penalty
by Mal Peet
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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.
FictionJuvenile fictionSlaveryMissing personsVoodooismHistoryJournalistsSoccerHistorical fictionSoccer storiesMissing persons, fictionSoccer, fiction