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Tevis, Walter S.

Summary: Eight-year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the US Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TEV

Stilton, Geronimo

Summary: "Geronimo and friends have to get to the bottom of a crown jewel of a case! Checkmate, cheese-lovers, er, we mean chess-lovers. For once, all is quiet in New Mouse City, so Geronimo Stilton, Editor-in-Chief of The Rodents Gazette can report on an incredible chess match-up. On one side, Gary Goudov, world-renowned chess champion, and on the other side, a super chess-playing computer! But after...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 STI

Janowitz, Jessie

Summary: A heartwarming contemporary middle-grade from the author of The Doughnut Fix: As twelve-year-old chess prodigy Milo Bloom grapples with the anxiety that's ruining his game, the last thing he needs is for a brand-new half sister to show up at his door. Twelve-year old chess prodigy Milo Bloom has lost the zone, that magical place his mind goes--or used to go when he plays chess. When he plays...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Young Readers 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JAN

Zhao, Kyla

Summary: "When twelve-year-old chess player May Li wins an award for being the top female player at the state championship, the boys on her team question her skills, so May makes a bet with a teammate that she can earn the board-one spot at nationals and become team captain"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2024

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Hazelwood, Ali

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: When eighteen-year-old Mallory begrudgingly agrees to return to chess in one last charity tournament, her surprise upset against Nolan Sawyer, the reigning world champ and bad boy of the chess world, sets her on an worldwin adventure as she rediscovers her passion for the game.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HAZ

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HAZ

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HAZ

Hazelwood, Ali

Summary: In this clever and swoonworthy YA debut from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis, lifes moving pieces bring rival chess players together in a match for the heart. Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays; after the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallorys focus is on her mom, her sisters, and the dead-end job that...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HAZ

Janowitz, Jessie

Summary: A heartwarming contemporary middle-grade from the author of The Doughnut Fix: As twelve-year-old chess prodigy Milo Bloom grapples with the anxiety that's ruining his game, the last thing he needs is for a brand-new half sister to show up at his door Twelve-year old chess prodigy Milo Bloom has lost the zone, that magical place his mind goesor used to gowhen he plays chess. When he plays now,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Saab, Gabriella

Summary: Vowing to avenge the murder of her family, Maria, a young Polish resistance worker imprisoned in Auschwitz, plays chess in exchange for her life, and, in doing so, challenges the man who destroyed her family to one last game that will end in either failure or justice.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAA

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