Summary
The Queen’s Gambit meets The Hunger Games in this “brisk and brutal…harrowing and intriguing” ( Kirkus Reviews ) novel about a teen girl whose abusive father teaches her the finer points of chess and hunting, all for his own sinister ends…drawn from the author’s own experiences.
For forever, Didi has had to be the best at anything her father demanded of her—the fastest runner, the master at chess, able to take down a deer with a bow and arrow at a dead sprin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781534487178 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1534487174 |
| Author: | N. Griffin |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Atheneum |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 20 July 2022 |
| Weight: | 347g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm x 23mm |
| Audience Age: | 14-99 |
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Critics Review
Harrowing and intriguing. – Kirkus Reviews * 1/15/2022 *
An intense read. – School Library Journal * 6/1/2022 *
About The Author
N. Griffin
N. Griffin is the author of The Whole Stupid Way We Are, for which she was named one of Publishers Weekly’s Flying Start Authors of 2013, as well as Just Wreck It All, Smashie McPerter and The Mystery of Room 11, Smashie McPerter and the Mystery of the Missing Goop, and Trigger. She received her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
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