The Chessmaster's Secret by Mary Parker
'The joy of The Chessmaster's Secret is that it really does have something for everyone [...] The style is direct, pacy and immediately engaging. The vocabulary is stretching but not out of reach. Middle graders who enjoy a good adventure will love it, but every young reader will find something to relate to in this fun and exciting story.’ – The Bookbag In London in 1944, war orphans, Belle and Joe, discover a link between their Uncle’s ‘Shop of Mechanical Marvels’ and The Turkish Chessmaster, a chess-playing automaton, which leads them into a time-travelling adventure with ‘The Turk’s’ inventor Baron Von Kempelen. Helping the Baron they find themselves in a risky confrontation with the Russian Army; a narrow escape at the court of Maria Theresa and a game of chess with Napoleon. Despite their adventures, Belle and Joe long for a permanent home. Determined to solve the mystery of ‘The Turk’, they are inevitably led to the Museum in Philadelphia in 1844, where the Chessmaster has been revealed as merely a conjuring trick. Or has it?
Mary Parker has worked in schools with children who struggled to read, and instilled in them a love of stories. She later taught at The Institute of Education. Her doctoral thesis explored children developing Sense of Time. She lives in East Grinstead, Sussex.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781789018264 |
| ISBN 10 | 1789018269 |
| Title | The Chessmaster's Secret |
| Author | Mary Parker |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Troubador Publishing |
| Year published | 2019-10-28 |
| Number of pages | 184 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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