Chess rumble
By: by G. Neri ; illustrated by Jesse Joshua Watson.
Contributors: Watson, Jesse Joshua, ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781584302797
Subjects: Chess -- Fiction; Behavior -- Fiction; Family problems -- Fiction; Schools -- Fiction; Inner cities -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Branded a troublemaker due to his anger over everything from being bullied to his sister's death a year before, eleven-year-old Marcus begins to control himself and cope with his problems at home and at his inner-city school when an unlikely mentor teaches him to play chess.