Maxine Kuftinec, a 10 year old downtown girl, is ostracized at her new uptown school and shaken by the death of her beloved grandmother. Accidentally, she finds an unlikely mentor who is a mysterious, irascible chess master, who uses the game to teach her resilience, perseverance, and how to embrace inevitable change.
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