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Overview

In a small newspaper office in South America, Paul Faustino, a veteran sports reporter, begins an exclusive interview with El Gato, the World Cup-winning soccer phenom. Over the course of the long night, El Gato tells the story of how an unspectacular teenager in a poor logging town became the world's most accomplished goalkeeper. It is a tale filled with tension, hunger, and magic, set in a mythic corner of the jungle. But above all it is a tale about El Gato's ghostly, but very real mentor: the Keeper.

“A well-written, fast-paced sports story that addresses far more than just the sport itself.”
— School Library Journal

“This haunting tale is full of sports action. . . . An unusual and compelling story.”
— KLIATT

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Children's Literature
This book, part sports fiction, part fantasy and part fictional biography has an interesting, if specific, draw to it. It begins with the interview of "El Gato," a soccer goalie who has recently won the World Cup. The interviewer, Paul Faustino, expects a run-of-the-mill interview with a world-class soccer player, but gets something much more. El Gato begins to tell Paul of his childhood in the jungles of South America, surprising the interviewer with his lack of interest in soccer as a young boy. The uncoordinated young boy is useless on his village's soccer team and finds himself spending his time in the jungle instead of playing with the village boys. It is here, in a mysterious jungle clearing that he meets the Keeper, a ghost-like apparition who begins to train El Gato to be one of the world's greatest soccer goalkeepers. This novel has mixed appeal for both fans of soccer and fans of the supernatural. At times some of the dialogue feels a bit formal or stiff, but for the most part, this is a wonderful story and an easy recommendation for some reluctant male readers. 2003, Candlewick Press, Ages 10 to 15.
—Sharon Oliver
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This soccer novel is told in the form of an interview of El Gato ("the cat"), a legendary goalkeeper who has just won the World Cup for his team. El Gato tells how he grew up in a poor logging camp in the South American rain forest, where he says he was taught to play the game in a clearing in the jungle by a ghostly mentor he refers to only as the Keeper. At 15, El Gato must leave school to help support his family, and he reluctantly joins his father at the logging camp. There the men play soccer for recreation (and bet on the outcome), and El Gato's incredible skills are quickly recognized. A scout appears, and his rise is meteoric, but he never forgets his family and his mentor. This haunting tale is full of sports action, but it also deals with El Gato's anguished loyalty to his family and to the Keeper. An unusual and compelling sports story by a first-time novelist, this has already won awards in Britain. KLIATT Codes: JS*—Exceptional book, recommended for junior and senior high school students. 2003, Candlewick, 240p., Ages 12 to 18.
—Paula Rohrlick

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780763632861
  • Publisher: Candlewick Press
  • Publication date: 2/13/2007
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 240
  • Sales rank: 61,207
  • Age range: 10 - 17 Years
  • Product dimensions: 5.27 (w) x 7.66 (h) x 0.67 (d)

Meet the Author

MAL PEET grew up in Norfolk, England, where he says the only worthwhile pastimes were reading books and playing soccer. These are still his main interests. Of KEEPER, his first novel for young adults, he says, "Many soccer stories seem to get stuck in the mud like a heavy ball on a wet Saturday afternoon, but there's no reason why they can't shift into a different and magical dimension. KEEPER is about soccer, of course, but it's also about the supernatural, about relationships and loneliness, about believing in yourself—and about having something you would do your utmost to protect and defend." Mal Peet now lives in Devon, England.

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Keeper



By Mal Peet


Candlewick



Copyright © 2005
Mal Peet

All right reserved.


ISBN: 0763627496


You probably don't think this is remarkable. But if you knew the jungle, you would find it hard to believe me, because an open space in the jungle is not possible. Something, anything, will occupy any space where it can find light to live and grow. Yet here was this clearing, and it was covered in grass. Yes, grass. Short grass. Turf. Impossible. Absolutely impossible. I walked out onto this grass very slowly, far more alarmed by this clearing than by any plant or creature I had met in the jungle itself. . . .

I was in a space that was about one hundred yards long and maybe half as wide, and I had walked out of the forest at a point about halfway down its length. I looked at first to my left and saw how the clearing ended in a dense, shadowy wall of trees. Then I looked to my right. And froze.

Standing there, with its back to the trees, was a goal. A soccer goal. Two uprights and a crossbar. With a net. A net fixed up like the old-fashioned ones, pulled back and tied to two poles behind the goal. My brain stood still in my head. I could hear the thumping of my blood. I must have looked like an idiot, my eyes mad and staring, my mouth hanging open. Eventually I found the nerve to take a few steps toward this goal, this quite impossible goal. The woodwork was a silvery gray, and the grain of the wood was open and rough. Weathered, like the timber of old boats left for years on the beach. It shoneslightly. The net had the same color, like cobwebs, and thin green plant tendrils grew up the two poles that supported it.

It seemed to take an age, my whole life, to walk into that goalmouth. When I got there, I put out my hands and held the net. It was sound and strong, despite its great age. I was completely baffled and stood there, my fingers in the mesh of the net and my back to the clearing, trying, and failing, to make sense of all this.

And then my fingers began to tremble, and then my legs, because I was suddenly certain that I was not alone.

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KEEPER by Mal Peet. Copyright (c) 2005 by Mal Peet. Published by Candlewick Press, Inc., Cambridge, MA.


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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 15, 2011

    Recommended-its a good book.

    The Keeper
    I would recommend reading this book because it is very inspiring. This book is very full of joy and happy, it never losses my attention. I always hated reading but when I saw this book it was eye catching. The cover was beautiful, also the reason I read this book is because it was about soccer.
    This book was never boring it always had new things that I was not expecting. This book was about a Boy named El Gato. He was never good at soccer but then he meets a man in the middle of the jungle and he taught him how to become the best goal keeper ever. Eventually El Gato becomes the best goal keeper and wins the world championship and get the gold medal.
    This book really inspired me on not giving up because when El Gato started playing soccer he did not know how to play, matter a fact he was the worst in his whole town. His town was really into soccer and everyone played after school or work or get together in a café and watch soccer games. El Gato was never interested in playing but then when he meet this man (his name wasn¿t in it) he was very inspired on playing soccer, and eventually he became the best goal keeper.
    This book is truly an amazing book and I really enjoyed reading it. It inspired me to never give up even on things that I don¿t like. There are many things that I don¿t like out there but I know that if I try I could actually accomplish something amazing in life. This book has really touched me and I really has inspired me to do something that I don¿t like or try something that I never thought I would like. There were some moments in the book that were different from my culture and things I did not understand because El Gato and his town and family were all Mexican and all lived in Mexico.
    I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it to others to read. Especially people who like soccer. This book is a touching book and is very interesting and never losses interest.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 14, 2011

    Great book

    Best soccer book ever

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 1, 2011

    nnxnxn

    this is a good book and very descriptive

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  • Posted December 15, 2010

    Are you looking for a great book? Well check this one out!

    Keeper is about a kid that lives in the jungle and loves playing soccer but struggles to play soccer because he doesn't know how to play and what are the rules. Then he becomes the best goalie of the whole world. He became the best goalie by playing with a soccer ball that he found in the jungle. Well then check out KEEPER by MAL PEET. Am about to tell you a little about the book, there is a kid call EL GATO his the protagonist and there is the people that told him he couldn't play soccer and that he couldn't be the best soccer player of the world. He always used to go inside in one cave in the jungle after that
    he went more into the jungle than usual when he went inside he found a soccer ball and a goalie then a man came out of the jungle and came to him and told him be goal keeper if I make a goal we change and I will be the goal keeper. In the beginning of the book KEEPER EL GATO had won the world cup for being one of the best keepers in the world. Then Faustino was asking EL GATO how he did to be the best when he was little and what he did it was that took steps to become the best keeper of the world. Something that was going on at the middle of the book was that EL GATO was telling Faustino that if instead of putting the information into a newspaper he could put it in a book because that information (his life) he hadn't said it to nobody so it was so special and if Faustino put it on a newspaper people would just throw it to the floor but if he put it on a book people will keep it and save it.

    My favorite part of this book is when EL GATO went more deep into the jungle than usual and he found a soccer ball and a goalie. This was a good part because is like how EL GATO started playing good. EL GATO started playing good because he found a ghost so this ghost showed EL GATO how to play as a goalie. This is an interesting part of the book because I don't know if the ghost was saying the truth that his was going to help him play soccer or what if he kills EL GATO or rove him or something like that.

    As I read this book I was thinking about what was EL GATO going to tell Faustino about how he become a processional KEEPER. Teens usually connects to this book because a lot of kids have goals in life but they start from beginning until they have accomplished their goals and thats what happened to EL GATO he wanted to be a soccer player but he wasn't good but he didn't give up. He didn't give up until he became the best goal keeper of the world. This book helped me realize a lot of things about life but the thing that this book helped me realize about life the most is that sometimes you think that sometimes you can't accomplish your goals right away and that you think that you can't accomplish your goal but that you have to work hard to accomplish your goal. In my opinion I think that the theme of this book is to never give up when you have a dream or a goal. I think that this theme was clear in every part of the book or most of the beginning and some of the middle too. But the part that was the most clear was when EL GATO said "I will I never give up until I have my dream accomplish." In general this was an awesome book it was like one of the books I have never read it in my life. I will that this is one of the best book I had been reading in my life because I like soccer and this book was not a boring soccer book it was a fun.

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  • Posted August 4, 2010

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    Superb, haunting tale

    I absolutely loved this book. It blew me away. I read it during a camping trip last week and was hooked from the first page to the last page. Mal Peet is an AMAZING writer. The plot was so original and enthralling, I couldn't put it down. The Keeper was the best part of the whole novel. The ending gave me goosebumps. This book was full of vivid imagery of the rainforest, excellent characters, and some very poignant moments. Don't pass this soccer book up!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 29, 2009

    Keeper

    This was a good book to read if you have dreams. I would say this book would inspire to follow your dream because the kid in this book did follow his dream and he was successful about it. If you do have a dream follow it because "you never know" you could be the next big thing

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  • Posted April 29, 2009

    The keeper review

    this was an excelent book. it shows how sometimes looking the other way could lead you to greatness. and if you work for what you believe in you can accomplish anything. this was an excelent book and i would reccomend it for any reader.

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  • Posted April 29, 2009

    Keeper

    I thought this book was good for the imagination, how he explains how he felt in the forest. When he explained that he gave up on soccer and then found the forest and it taught him alot, then when he met the Keeper then he finally realized what he really wanted to do. He never gave up when the going got rough when he thought that the Keeper didn't like him because he never said anything good about how he did.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 2, 2009

    Amazing book

    Great book. I couldn't put down the book without finishing it .

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 5, 2008

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    The book keeper is so exciting!!

    This book is a good book for any one who likes sports. It tells you that you can follow your dream and it might come true one day. That is more in life to find out that you can do that. I really like this book because of all the characters and every event. This book gives out many emotions like sad, sacared, excited, and many more. If you read this book it will satisfy you. This book is more then just paper it is a realistic fiction so it probaly happened to a keeper before. I'm not saying that it has, but that is amazing if it did. That is what my review is on the book Keeper.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 31, 2008

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    Keeper, by Mal Peet, is about a World Cup winning goal keeper. He tells his life long story and the day he met his mentor, the Keeper. El Gato, the main character, goes into the jungle everyday to learn from the Keeper. The Keeper teaches him how to be the best goalie. Eventually, he does become the best goalie in his town. Once he plays in the World Cup he thinks about giving up soccer. Will El Gato give up soccer? You will need to read Keeper to find out. What I liked about the book is it¿s about my favorite sport, soccer and I love to be goalie. It was a very fun and interesting book to read. The best part was when he played his first game. In his first game he was goalie and his team won. Then, he started playing everyday. I also liked how the author explained everyday of El Gato¿s life. The book¿s message is to always believe in yourself and follow your dreams. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes soccer.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 24, 2007

    It's a 'KEEPER!!!!'

    The Keeper written by Mal Peet is a wonderful story about a boy who realizes his true potential. He fights through self doubt, but ultimatley it's his determination to be the best that he can be that wins out. The story has reminded me how important it is to believe in myself. This story has many twists and turns that you will never expect. You will enjoy every page. You will experiece every emotion from sadness to exhileration. I loved this book and so will you.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 9, 2006

    Tremendous!

    I ordered this book for my high school English as a second language class, a collection of soccer fanatics with varying reading abilities. As I previewed the text I felt myself being drawn in, and though I have little interest in soccer I was hooked. This is a beautiful story that I looked forward to picking up each day.

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