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Delve Deeper into Brooklyn Castle A film by Katie Dellamaggiore This list of fiction and Lost Generation-- and What Eight-time National Chess nonfiction books, compiled We Can Do About It. New Champion as a youth and by Erica Bess, Susan Conlon York: Harper Perennial, subject of the film Searching for and Hanna Lee of Princeton 2013. Froymovich discusses the Bobby Fischer (1993), Josh Public Library, provides a impact of the 2008 recession on Waitzkin later expanded his range of perspectives on the millennials (defined as people horizons and studied martial issues raised by the POV being born between 1976 and arts, eventually earning several documentary Brooklyn 2000) and presents ideas such National and World Castle. as political activism and creative Championship titles. In this entrepreneurship as potential book, he shares his personal Brooklyn’s I.S. 318, a solutions to the long-term side journey to the top—twice—and powerhouse in junior high chess effects of financial crisis. his reflections on principles of competitions, has won more learning and performance. than 30 national championships, Kozol, Jonathan. Savage the most of any school in the Inequalities: Children in Weinreb, Michael. The Kings country. Its 85-member squad America’s Schools. New of New York: A Year Among boasts so many strong players York: Crown, 1991. National the Geeks, Oddballs, and that the late Albert Einstein, a Book Award-winning author Geniuses Who Make Up dedicated chess maven, would Jonathan Kozol presents his America’s Top High School rank fourth if he were on the shocking account of the Chess Team. New York: team. Most astoundingly, I.S. American educational system in Gotham Books, 2007. 318 is a Brooklyn school that this stunning New York Times Acclaimed sportswriter Weinreb serves mostly minority students Bestseller. Examining American chronicles a year spent with from families living below the schools across the country, from Brooklyn’s Edward R. Murrow poverty line. Brooklyn Castle New York to San Antonio, Kozol High School chess team as it is the exhilarating story of five reveals vast inequities that call prepares for the national of the school's aspiring young into question the assumption of championship tournament in players and how chess became equal opportunity through Nashville. The book shares the the school's unlikely inspiration education. culture of the chess world, the for academic success. difficulties that women face in Polgár, Zsuzsa and Hoainhan this male-dominated sport, and ADULT NONFICTION Troung: Breaking Through: the characters of the competing How the Polgar Sisters students and those who are Agdestein, Simen. Changed the Game of Chess. trying to help them succeed. Wonderboy: How Magnus London: Gloucester Pub.; Carlsen Became the Guilford, CT: Distributed in ADULT FICTION Youngest Chess North America by the Globe Grandmaster in the World. Pequot Press, 2005. Four- DuBois, Jennifer. A Partial Alkmaar, The Netherlands: time Women's World Champion History of Lost Causes. New New in Chess, 2004. At Susan Polgar provides a candid York: Dial Press, 2011. thirteen Magnus Carlsen inside view of the lives of the Thirty-year old Irina became the youngest chess Polgar sisters, chess prodigies heartbreakingly watches her grandmaster in the world. This who grew up to win World titles father Frank, a chess is the story of Carlsen's rise, his and Olympiad gold medals, enthusiast, lose his battle with family life, and instructive breaking through gender and Huntington’s Disease. Before he comments on his games. age barriers in competitive dies, Frank writes an chess. unanswered letter to Russia’s Brady, Frank. Endgame: Aleksandr Bezetov, the world’s Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Shenk, David. The Immortal most respected chess player, Rise and Fall - from Game: A History of Chess & asking him advice on how to America's Brightest Prodigy Its Consequences. New York: regain hope when all seems lost to the Edge of Madness. New Doubleday, 2006. The during a game of chess. When York: Crown, 2011. From the intricate game of chess has Irina is diagnosed with author who wrote one of the fascinated cultures for over Huntington’s Disease herself, bestselling Bobby Fischer books 1500 years. Shenk takes she set out on a voyage to ever and who was himself a readers from its invention in Russia to find the answer to her friend of Fischer's, comes an India to its use as a moral guide father’s question. in the Middle Ages, to its role in impressively researched Zweig, Stefan. Chess Story. the birth of cognitive science, to biography that for the first time New York: New York Review its use as a learning tool for captures the complete, Books, 2006. Chess Story, also inner-city students. remarkable arc of the life of the known as The Royal Game, is chess master. the Austrian master Stefan Waitzkin, Josh. The Art of Zweig's final achievement, Learning: A Journey in the Froymovich, Riva. The End of completed in Brazilian exile and Pursuit of Excellence. New the Good Life: How the sent off to his American York: Free Press, 2007. Financial Crisis Threatens A publisher only days before his Delve Deeper into Brooklyn Castle A film by Katie Dellamaggiore suicide in 1942. Travelers by for playing chess, including is so competitive that he turns ship from New York to Buenos openings, middle-game and everything he does into a Aires find that on board with endgame strategies, forks, pins, contest. If he wins, he gloats; if them is the world champion of skewers, and examples from the he loses, he whines. Humphrey chess, an arrogant and games of world champions. Hippopotamus takes him on a unfriendly man. Then a journey to show him the real mysterious passenger steps Root, Alexey W. Thinking meaning of being a winner. forward to advise them and with Chess: Teaching their fortunes change. How he Children Ages 5-14. Boston: Weyr, Garret. The Kings are came to possess his Mongoose Press, 2012. Already Here. Boston: extraordinary grasp of the game Thinking with Chess is a Houghton Mifflin, 2003. of chess and at what cost lie at handbook for teachers, (Young Adult Fiction) Two the heart of Zweig's story. librarians, after-school teenagers, one obsessed with instructors, chess coaches, the world of ballet and the other counselors, and parents that with that of chess, join together NONFICTION FOR YOUNGER requires no prior knowledge of in a quest across Europe and READERS the game. Both novices and begin to learn not only how to veteran chess players can use connect with other people, but Coakley, Jeff. Winning Chess its innovative lesson plans for why. Strategy for Kids. Montreal: teaching groups of children. Chess'n Math Association, Wong, Janet S. Alex and the 2000. Coakley begins at Weeramantry, Sunil; Edward Wednesday Chess Club. New square one: covering the rules, V. Eusebi. Best Lessons of a York: Margaret K. McElderry basic mates, and elementary Chess Coach.New York: Books, 2004. (Grades 1 to 4) tactics. It then leads the student Random House, 1994. Alex’s love of chess begins as a through a whole range of An innovative book on game- little boy when his mother fashions advanced strategies, including winning strategy for players at his first chessboard out of food. piece development, pawn the intermediate level - from a When he is crushingly defeated in structure, and attacking the master chess coach. The book's a chess game by his neighbor’s castled king. Whether kids are interactive teacher-student relative, Alex loses his joy for the learning chess for recreation or dialogue coaches players on game along with his self-esteem. are interested in playing how to think during a chess When he decides to give it another competitively, Winning Chess game. try by joining the afterschool chess Strategy for Kids will help them club and competing in understand the game and enjoy tournaments, he discovers why he it more. FICTION FOR YOUNGER used to enjoy the challenge so READERS much. Fox, Janet S. Get Organized Without Losing It. Gilson, Jamie. Chess! I Love Minneapolis, MN: Free Spirit It, I Love It, I Love It! New Pub, 2006. These days, York: Clarion Books, 2008. students have so many things to (Grades 2 to 4) When a group keep track of – homework of second-graders at Sumac assignments, afterschool School Chess Club compete in a activities, household duties – large tournament, the members that it’s difficult to keep on top of the club must learn to set of everything. This guide helps aside their differences for the students to have fun organizing good of the team. their responsibilities and managing their time without Neri, Greg. Chess Rumble. feeling overwhelmed. New York: Lee & Low Books, 2007. (Young Adult Fiction) King, Daniel. Chess: From Branded a troublemaker due to First Moves to Checkmate. his anger over everything from New York: Kingfisher, 2000. being bullied to his sister's This book introduces the rules death a year before, Marcus and strategies of chess, as well begins to control himself and as its history and some of its cope with his problems at home great players and matches. and at his inner-city school when an unlikely mentor Nottingham, Ted; Al teaches him to play chess. Lawrence; Robert Graham Wade. Winning Chess: Neugebauer, Charise. The Tactics & Strategies. New Real Winner. New York: York: Sterling Pub. Co.,1999. North-South Books, 2000. (K Presents tactics and techniques to Grade 2) Rocky the Raccoon .