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Now is the time for running / Michael Williams.
LIBRA PZ7.W66715 Now 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Michael, 1962-
- Standardized Title:
- Billion dollar soccer ball
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zimbabwe--Juvenile fiction.
- Zimbabwe.
- Zimbabwe--Fiction.
- Refugees--Fiction.
- Brothers--Fiction.
- People with mental disabilities--Fiction.
- Survival--Fiction.
- Homeless persons--Fiction.
- Soccer--Fiction.
- Blacks--Fiction.
- Local Subjects:
- Zimbabwe--Fiction.
- Refugees--Fiction.
- Brothers--Fiction.
- People with mental disabilities--Fiction.
- Survival--Fiction.
- Homeless persons--Fiction.
- Soccer--Fiction.
- Blacks--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Young adult works.
- Young adult fiction.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- 233 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Little, Brown, 2013.
- Summary:
- When soldiers attack their small village, Deo escapes with his older, mentally disabled brother, carrying a soccer ball filled with money, and after facing prejudice, poverty, and tragedy, it is in soccer that Deo finds hope.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in South Africa by Maskew Miller Longman in 2009 as The Billion Dollar Soccer Ball"--Title page verso.
- ISBN:
- 9780316077880
- 0316077887
- OCLC:
- 829391103
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