Mal Peet begins this heartwarming story by introducing the narrators of the book. They include the best soccer reporter in all of South America, Paul Faustino of La Nacion (popular newspaper in Brazil) who interviews the goal keeping phenom, El Gato. El Gato begins to tell his incredible journey of how he went from a hardworking boy in poor logging town in Brazil to winning the World Cup and becoming the world's most accomplished goal keeper. In this Chapter Paul asks El Gato of his background. His life before the game. Gato explains his hometown as nothing but jungle and machinery. The mens' lives in the town revovled around two things only. The lumber mill in which everybody seemed to work at and soccer. The men were obsessed with it and everybody played. Everybody except for him. He was terrible at soccer and hardly touched the ball in games. So what did he do instead?
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Mal Peet
Mal Peet 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.
He is the author of three novels for young adults. His first, Keeper, was published in 2003, and won the Branford Boase Award. His second, Tamar (2005), the story of two men caught up in secret operations during World War II, won the 2005 Carnegie medal. His most recent book, The Penalty (2006), returns to the South American location of Keeper, and sets a modern-day story of crime and corruption against an historical narrative of slavery and occult religion. It was shortlisted for the 2007 Booktrust Teenage Prize.
He is currently working on a fourth novel, Exposure.
"Contemporary Writers". British Council. 10/29/09.
He is the author of three novels for young adults. His first, Keeper, was published in 2003, and won the Branford Boase Award. His second, Tamar (2005), the story of two men caught up in secret operations during World War II, won the 2005 Carnegie medal. His most recent book, The Penalty (2006), returns to the South American location of Keeper, and sets a modern-day story of crime and corruption against an historical narrative of slavery and occult religion. It was shortlisted for the 2007 Booktrust Teenage Prize.
He is currently working on a fourth novel, Exposure.
"Contemporary Writers". British Council. 10/29/09
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