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Now is the time for running / Michael Williams.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2013.; �2009Edition: 1st U.S. pbk. edDescription: 233 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780316077880
Uniform titles:
  • Billion dollar soccer ball
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 23
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.W66715 Now 2013
Summary: 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.
Item type: Book List(s) this item appears in: The Refugee Experience
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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.

650 Lexile.

Young Adult Follett School Solutions.

Reading Counts RC 3.7 14.0

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