Ads
related to: keeper by mal peet
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Keeper is a sports novel for young adults by Mal Peet, published by Walker Books in 2003. It was Peet's first novel and the first of three (as of 2012) football stories featuring South American sports journalist Paul Faustino. Cast as an interview with Faustino, the world's best goalkeeper, El Gato ("The Cat"), tells his life story.
Malcolm Charles Peet (5 October 1947 – 2 March 2015) [2] was an English writer and illustrator best known for young adult fiction. He has won several honours including the Brandford Boase, the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize , British children's literature awards that recognise "year's best" books.
El Gato, main character in the novel Keeper by Mal Peet Poosy Gato, resident cat in American comic strip Gordo El Gato, valuable artifact in the movie The Rundown from 2003 starring The Rock, Christopher Walken, Seann William Scott and Rosaria Dawson.
Keeper, an American horror film; Keeper (chemistry) a small quantity of solvent added in an evaporative procedure to prevent analyte loss "Keeper", a 2022 song by Tobi and Manny Brown; The Keepers, English title of Head Against the Wall, a 1959 French drama film directed by Georges Franju; Keeper (password manager) Keeper Hill, an Irish mountain
The Penalty is a sports novel for young adults by Mal Peet, published by Walker Books in 2006. It is the second (of three to 2011) football stories featuring South American sports journalist Paul Faustino. The teen football prodigy El Brujito ("The Little Magician") disappears without a trace and Faustino is drawn to find the summer valentines ...
At the end of the year she played the gaoler's daughter in Lee Hall's adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, [7] a multimillion-pound production by Box TV for BBC One, and was the joint narrator (with Anton Lesser) of the CD version of Tamar, a children's book about the Second World War by Mal Peet, which was published in December 2007. [10]
Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal is a young-adult novel by Mal Peet, published by Walker Books in 2005.Within a 1995 frame story, where a 15-year-old girl inherits papers and other mementos from her deceased grandfather, it is set in the occupied Netherlands near the end of the Second World War; there it features two British-trained Dutch agents and the resistance to German ...
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature has written that the award's "success in talent-spotting has been impressive, consistently recognising debut works by writers who subsequently go on to achieve great things—among them Marcus Sedgwick, Mal Peet, Meg Rosoff, B. R. Collins, Frances Hardinge, Sally Prue, Kevin Brooks and Siobhan Dowd."