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2) Focused
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Clea wants to do her homework, follow instructions, pay attention in school, and play chess on the school team, but somehow she cannot focus on whatever is in front of her, and the other kids at school are starting to notice and make fun of her; when her worried parents take her to be tested she finds out that she has ADHD (only without the hyperactivity)--and with help from the psychiatrist who seems to really understand her she is...
3) Shadow maker
Author
Series
Nick Baron novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a suicide bomber shatters the peace of a winter afternoon on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., former pilot and undercover Cerberus operative Nick Baron receives an eerie invitation from the chess app on his phone.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Oklahoma rodeo champion Danny Ray is sent to the kingdom of Elidor, where he sets sail across the Checkered Sea to rescue a kidnapped queen, despite the enemies found there and the dubious help of the prince and princess.
6) Grandmaster
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"A father-son chess tournament reveals the dark side of the game"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
"Nothing’s gone right for Lawrence since he had to move from Charlotte to Larenville, North Carolina, to live with his granny. When Lawrence ends up in one too many fights at his new school, he gets expelled. The fight wasn’t his fault, but since his pop’s been gone, it feels like no one listens to what Lawrence has to say. Instead of going to school, Lawrence starts spending his days at the rec center, helping out a neighbor who runs a chess...
8) Check & mate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"After chess led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory Greenleaf's focus is a dead-end job that keeps the lights on for her mother and sisters. When she plays in a charity tournament and wipes the board with current world champion Nolan Sawyer, the victory opens the door to sorely needed cash prizes. Mallory struggles to keep her family separated from the game, but she soon realizes that the games aren't only on the board. The...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beth Harmon becomes an orphan when her parents are killed in an automobile accident. At eight years old, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where the children are given tranquilizers twice a day. Plain and shy, she learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a chess genius. Penniless and desperate to learn more, she steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a chess tournament. She also...
10) The Josie gambit
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Shy, twelve-year-old, chess-loving Greg is apprehensive about spending six months with his grandmother in Pineville, Illinois; but his relationship with the outgoing Nolan family involves him in some real-life chess moves with a troubled girl, that open him up to loyalty and friendship with people who really count.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
"In Kenny Wright's active imagination he's a world famous superhero, but in the real world he's a sixth grade "Grandma's Boy" whose struggles to fit in at his Washington D.C. inner city school will put his grades and family loyalty to the test"-- $c Provided by publisher. Includes sections of comic-style illustrations.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 147
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When a chess master's sister is kidnapped, it's up to detective Nancy Drew to make all the right moves in this deadly game.
14) Mort the sport
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mort's attempts to excel at playing both baseball and the violin make him so confused that he decides to take up chess instead.
15) Curiosity
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
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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