Chess Rumble

Pages: 64, Edition: Library Binding, Hardcover, Lee & Low Books

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Posted: Jan-25-2009

Captivating

Originally posted on my blog: [...]The book illustrates in verse the delicate balance of the different a little bit of forethought can make. Grieving for his sister's death and father's abandonment, Marcus' temper is on a short fuse. To make matters worse, whether he is to blame or not he is...

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Posted: Aug-16-2008

Rutgers University Project on Economics and Children

Chess Rumble provides a gripping and moving account of an eleven-year old boy's struggles with living in poverty in a single-parent household after the death of his sister. Plagued by feelings of rage and provoked by his younger brothers' antics and the taunts of his classmate, Marcus uses his...

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Posted: Feb-01-2008

Treatise on Anger

A superb view of inner turmoil, this book speaks through street dialect a troubled boy's grief. Admirably illustrated and paced, the work deserves a space in libraries and in the hands of kids who are better at making fists than making amends.

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Posted: Dec-23-2007

Great for Reluctant Readers!

G. Neri's CHESS RUMBLE is appealing to reluctant readers, especially boys, on a number of levels. Neri nails the voice of a boy growing up in the inner city in a way that's reminiscent of Walter Dean Myers. Neri's main character, Marcus, is a young man dealing with family troubles and fights at...

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Posted: Dec-07-2007

Game's On with Chess Rumble

Chess Rumble is a powerful book that reaches young readers through Neri's succint and compelling prose and Watson's impressive illustrations. Many young people will glimpse shadows of themselves in Marcus as they slip vicariously into his world to experience his sorrows, joys, mistakes,and...

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Posted: Dec-06-2007

Beyond the boxing gloves

CR is a deft blend of text and illustration. Marcus is a big boy at whom life has thrown some mean punches. Beyond anyone's help, he takes his anger and frustration to the limit - the proverbial brick wall beyond which his survival lies in his own two hands. CM is the mentor who has walked in...

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Posted: Dec-03-2007

He gets under my skin

Neri knows the street, what it's like to have a daddy "we ain't even seen in six month," a mother who's always "watchin' me outta the corner a her eye, just waitin' for me to mess up," two annoying younger brothers, a dead sister, and problems at school, all issues 11-year-old Marcus faces and...

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