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Peet, Mal

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As the city of San Juan pulses to summer’s sluggish beat, its teenage football prodigy, El Brujito, vanishes without trace. Paul Faustino, South America’s top sports journalist, is reluctantly drawn into the mystery.

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Publish Date: 07/04/2016

Description

Football, corruption and dark secrets collide in the thrilling sequel to the award-winning Keeper by Carnegie Medal-winning author Mal Peet.

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.

Additional information

Weight 193 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 16 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

264

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

Children – juvenile / Code: J