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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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2014]
Year Published: 2014
Description: 313 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780803739246
0803739249
SUBJECTS
Mälzel, Johann Nepomuk, -- 1772-1838 -- Fiction.
Chess -- Fiction.
Apprentices -- Fiction.
Poverty -- Fiction.
Robots -- Fiction.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.