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The Penalty

Mal Peet

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.

GenresMissing personsJuvenile fictionJournalistsVodouSlaverySoccer stories

262 pages, 18 editions

English edition · First published 2006 by Candlewick Press · ISBN 9780763633998

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Editions

18 editions

English

  • The Penalty · Candlewick Press · 2007 · ISBN 9780763633998 This page
  • The Penalty · National Geographic Books · 2016 · ISBN 9780763687472
  • The Penalty · Walker Books and Subsidiaries · 2016 · ISBN 9781406370577
  • The Penalty · Candlewick Press · 2016 · ISBN 9780763687786
  • The Penalty · Candlewick Press · 2016 · ISBN 9781484498323
  • The Penalty · Scobre Press · 2012 · ISBN 9781455889358
  • The Penalty · Walker · 2012 · ISBN 9781406338393
  • The Penalty · Walker · 2011 · ISBN 9781406336788
  • The Penalty · 2011 · ISBN 9781611066005
  • The Penalty · Candlewick on Brilliance Audio · 2011 · ISBN 9781455800728
  • The Penalty · Candlewick on Brilliance Audio · 2011 · ISBN 9781455800759
  • The Penalty · Candlewick on Brilliance Audio · 2011 · ISBN 9781455800742
  • The Penalty · Candlewick Press · 2009 · ISBN 9780763643393
  • The Penalty · Baker & Taylor, CATS · 2009 · ISBN 9781442021297
  • The Penalty · Walker Books · 2007 · ISBN 9781406309362
  • The Penalty · Walker Books Limited · 2006 · ISBN 9781406337051
  • The Penalty · Walker · 2006 · ISBN 9781844280995
  • The Penalty · Walker & Company · ISBN 9781406310344

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