- Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Slavery, Missing persons
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.
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Grave, earnest, plot-driven and bleak.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Mal Peet
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Tudem Kultur, imusti, Candlewick
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780763687786
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