The Josie gambit
By: Mary Francis Shura.
Publisher: Dodd, Mead
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Friendship -- Fiction; Chess -- Fiction
Description: Shy, twelve-year-old, chess-loving Greg is apprehensive about spending six months with his grandmother in Pineville, Illinois; but his relationship with the outgoing Nolan family involves him in some real-life chess moves with a troubled girl, that open him up to loyalty and friendship with people who really count.