Curiosity / Gary Blackwood.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: New York, New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2014]Description: 313 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780803739246 (hbk.)
  • 0803739249 (hbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • YA PZ 7 .B5338 Cur 2014
Summary: 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.
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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.

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