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Author Blackwood, Gary L., author.

Title Curiosity / Gary Blackwood.

Imprint New York, New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2014]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PCMS Historical Fiction  F BLACKWOOD    ---  Available
Description 313 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
volume rdacarrier
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.
Study Program AR RL 6.3 11.0 165195 PCMS
Subject Malzel, Johann Nepomuk, 1772-1838 -- Fiction.
Chess -- Fiction.
Apprentices -- Fiction.
Poverty -- Fiction.
Robots -- Fiction.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
ISBN 9780803739246 (hbk.)
0803739249 (hbk.)

 
    
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