TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blackwood,Gary L.
TI  - Curiosity
SN  - 9780803739246
AV  - PZ7.B5338 Cur 2014
U1  - FIC BLA 23
KW  - Mälzel, Johann Nepomuk,
KW  - Chess
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Apprentices
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Robots
KW  - Philadelphia (Pa.)
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
N1  - grades 5-7
N2  - 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
ER  -