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Title:

Now is the time for running

Author:

Williams, Michael, 1962-

Personal Author:

Williams, Michael, 1962-

Uniform Title:

Billion dollar soccer ball

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Little, Brown, 2011.

Physical Description:

233 pages ; 22 cm

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.

Language:

English

Reading Level:

650 Lexile.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.3 7.0 146533.

Reading Counts RC High School 3.7 14 Quiz: 55255.

Subject Term:

Refugees -- Juvenile fiction.

Brothers -- Juvenile fiction.

People with mental disabilities -- Juvenile fiction.

Survival -- Juvenile fiction.