Curiosity
- ISBN-10
- 0803739249
- ISBN-13
- 9780803739246
- Series
- Curiosity
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 313
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Dial Books for Young Readers
- Author
- Gary Blackwood
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.
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