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Shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2007. 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.
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Synopsis
The Penalty by Mal Peet
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. As a story of corruption and murder unfolds, he is forced to confront a bitter history of slavery, and the power of the occult.
Reviews
"Physical, spiritual - Arthurian, even - this is true enchantment." TES
About the Author
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Mal Peet, 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 has written and illustrated many educational picture books
for young children, and his cartoons have appeared in a number of
magazines. He and Elspeth live in Exmouth, Devon.
Tamar won the Carnegie Medal and is a multi-layered tale of love and betrayal. He has written three other linked novels, Keeper, The Penalty and Exposure all
featuring the football obsessed Paul Faustino, a sports journalist in
South America who is reluctantly drawn into murders and mysteries.
Exposure won the 2009 Guardian Award for Children’s Fiction.
On his award win, Mal says, “I’m totally thrilled to win the Guardian
prize. I’ve been buying the newspaper for 35 years, so I’ve worked for
it! In fact, if you subtract the prize money from what I’ve spent at the
newsagents, the Guardian is way ahead on the deal! I don’t mind – the
Guardian prize is very special. It’s judged by other writers so it’s
pretty likely that if you win it, you deserve it.”
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