Title:
The queen of Katwe : a story of life, chess, and one extraordinary girl's dream of becoming a grandmaster / Tim Crothers.
ISBN:
9781451657814
9781451657821
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Edition:
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Scribner, 2012.
Physical Description:
232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Opening -- Land of the frogs -- Katende -- Pioneers -- Resurrection -- Teach her what you know -- Mzungu -- Middlegame -- Like a boy, but not a boy -- Heaven -- The other side -- Endgame -- Hurdles -- Dreams.
Summary:
The true story of a female prodigy from the Ugandan slum of Katwe. Phiona Mutesi sleeps in a mud hut with her mother and siblings, and struggles to find a meal each day. She is also one of the best chess players in the world. One day in 2005, while searching for food, nine-year-old Phiona met Robert Katende, a refugee who had also grown up in the slums. Robert had an improbable aspiration: to empower Katwe's kids through chess - a game so foreign that there was no word for it in their native language.
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OCLC Number:
ocn779266354
Availability:
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