Now is the time for running
About this book
When soldiers attack a small village in Zimbabwe, Deo goes on the run with Innocent, his older, mentally disabled brother, carrying little but a leather soccer ball filled with money, and after facing prejudice, poverty, and tragedy, it is in soccer that Deo finds renewed hope.
Subjects
- blacks
- blacks, fiction
- brothers
- children's fiction
- fiction
- homeless persons
- homeless persons, fiction
- juvenile fiction
- mentally handicapped
- people with mental disabilities
- people with mental disabilities, fiction
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 9
- refugees
- refugees, fiction
- soccer
- soccer, fiction
- soccer stories
- survival
- survival, fiction
- zimbabwe, fiction