TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blackwood,Gary L.
TI  - Curiosity
SN  - 9780803739246 (hbk.)
AV  - YA PZ 7 .B5338 Cur 2014 
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
KW  - M�alzel, Johann Nepomuk,
KW  - Chess
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Apprentices
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Robots
KW  - Fiction
KW  - fast
KW  - Philadelphia (Pa.)
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Philadelphia
KW  - Juvenile works
N2  - In 1835, when his father's put in a Philadelphia debtor's prison, 12-year-old chess prodigy Rufus Goodspeed is relieved to be recruited to secretly operate a chess-playing automaton named The Turk, but soon questions the fate of his predecessors and his own safety
ER  -