Curiosity
By: Gary Blackwood
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780803739246; 9780142424483
Subjects: Poverty; Chess; Apprentices; Juvenile fiction; History; Robots; Fiction
Description: In 1835, when his father is put in a Philadelphia debtor's prison, twelve-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.
Notes: Accelerated Reader MG 6.3 11.

AR 6.3 11.0.