So Mary Francis Shura’s The Josie Gambit is where I learned pretty much everything I knew about chess. Twelve-year-old chess geek Greg is spending six months with his grandmother, and he reunites with his old friend and chess partner Josie. Josie has an absolutely hateful friend Tory, whose utter nastiness everyone is at a loss to explain. And the book is, essentially, all about why Tory is such a nasty girl. When I was small, I liked this book because everyone ate a lot of food, and I learned interesting things about chess, and there was a very unpleasant Lhaso…
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