The cardturner : a novel about a king, a queen, and a joker

Title
The cardturner : a novel about a king, a queen, and a joker

Personal Author EPSB
Louis, Sachar

Summary
When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge.

Other Title
Card turner

Year Published
2010

Physical Description
336 p. ; 22 cm.

Program Information
Accelerated Reader 5.0 9.0

Subject
Problem youth -- Fiction.
 
Bridge (Game) -- Fiction.
 
Uncles -- Fiction.
 
Blind -- Fiction.
 
Death -- Fiction.
 
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.

Summary
When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge.

ISBN
9780385670197
 
9780385736626
 
9780385736633
 
9780329889876
 
9780385670203

Publisher
[Toronto] : Doubleday Canada, c2010.
 
New York, NY: Ember Press, 2010.


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Mount PleasantFIC SAC (YRCA)Book30152000203474Due 1/5/26