Curiosity

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.

Main Author: Blackwood, Gary L.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2014]
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