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Keeper

In an interview with a young journalist, World Cup hero, El Gato, describes his youth in the Brazilian rain forest and the events, experiences, and people that helped make him a great goalkeeper and renowned soccer star.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Peet, Mal
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2005, c2003.
Edition:	1st U.S. ed.
Subjects:	Soccer > Young adult fiction. Soccer players > Young adult fiction. Interpersonal relations > Young adult fiction. Brazil > Young adult fiction. Soccer stories > Young adult. Sports fiction > Young adult. Coming-of-age fiction > Young adult.
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Summary:	In an interview with a young journalist, World Cup hero, El Gato, describes his youth in the Brazilian rain forest and the events, experiences, and people that helped make him a great goalkeeper and renowned soccer star.
Physical Description:	225 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:	0763627496
Author Notes:	Mal Peet was born in 1947. Before becoming a children's author, he worked as a teacher and for educational publishers. His first novel, Keeper, won the Branford Boase award and Nestle Children's Book Award. He also won the Carnegie Medal in 2006 for Tamar and the Guardian children's fiction prize in 2009 for Exposure. He co-authored a series of children's books with his wife Elspeth Graham. His first novel for adults, The Murdstone Trilogy, was published in 2014. He died from cancer on March 2, 2015 at the age of 67. (Bowker Author Biography)