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Author Sachar, Louis, 1954-

Title The cardturner : a novel about a king, a queen, and a joker / Louis Sachar.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Delacorte Press, [2010]
©2010
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1440899~S1
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 95th Street Teen Fiction  TEEN SACHAR    AVAILABLE
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Description 336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Audience 012-up.
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.
Subject Bridge whist -- Fiction.
Uncles -- Fiction.
Blind -- Fiction.
People with disabilities -- Fiction.
Dead -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Contract bridge -- Fiction.
Genre Young adult fiction.
Added Title Card turner
ISBN 9780385736626 (hardcover)
0385736622 (hardcover)
9780385906197 (glb)
0385906196 (glb)
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October 14 2011
SRP 2011 REVIEW: good story but the bridge talk just completely confuses me
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September 30 2010
SRP 2010 REVIEW: I thought that the cardturner was a pretty good story. It always left you thinking (cliffhangers, etc.). I never thought that a book could be so good when written about a old card game like bridge!
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