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Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
Description
Shy, twelve-year-old, chess-loving Greg is apprehensive about spending six months with his grandmother in Pineville, Illinois; but his relationship with the outgoing Nolan family involves him in some real-life chess moves with a troubled girl, that open him up to loyalty and friendship with people who really count.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Phebe Knight, a lifelong ballerina who seems to have lost her focus on dance, decides to spend the summer in Switzerland with her father where she meets teenage chess champion Nikolai Kotalev and becomes involved in his obsessive quest to find the perfect teacher.
3) Chess rumble
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A story in free verse poetry in which Marcus, a boy from the inner city who suffers bullying, is grieving his sister's death, and has been labeled a troublemaker finds a way to cope with his anger with the help of an unlikely mentor, who teaches him to play chess.
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