Now is the time for running / Michael Williams.
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TextPublication details: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2013; �2009Edition: 1st U.S. pbk. edDescription: 233 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780316077880Uniform titles: Billion dollar soccer ball Subject(s): Refugees -- Juvenile fiction | Brothers -- Juvenile fiction | People with mental disabilities -- Juvenile fiction | Survival -- Juvenile fiction | Homeless persons -- Juvenile fiction | Soccer -- Juvenile fiction | Blacks -- Zimbabwe -- Juvenile fiction | Zimbabwe -- Juvenile fiction | Refugees -- Fiction | Brothers -- Fiction | People with mental disabilities -- Fiction | Survival -- Fiction | Homeless persons -- Fiction | Soccer -- Fiction | Blacks -- Zimbabwe -- Fiction | Zimbabwe -- FictionDDC classification: [Fic] LOC classification: PZ7.W66715 | Now 2013Summary: 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.
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Originally published as: The billion dollar soccer ball.
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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.
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Young Adult Follett School Solutions.
Reading Counts RC 3.7 14.0
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