Mal Peet (1947–2015) is the acclaimed author of the Carnegie Medal–winning novel Tamar as well as the Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book Life: An Exploded Diagram and three Paul Faustino novels: Keeper, The Penalty, and Exposure, a winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. He is also the co-author of Cloud Tea Monkeys, Mysterious Traveler, and Night Sky Dragons, all of which he wrote with his wife, Elspeth Graham.
Peet spins a great story, with devilishly well-plotted connections
among the characters, a deliciously evil villain in Diego Mendosa,
and an unforgiving examination of the cult of celebrity.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Successfully blends sports writing with crime fiction to explore
not only race and class divisions in society but also issues of
trust, loyalty, and celebrity – with the Shakespeare play providing
the structure for it all.
—The Horn Book
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