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Cardturner

Average rating
4 out of 5
Based on 5,754 Ratings and 1,353 Reviews

Book Description
When Alton's ageing, blind uncle asks him to attend bridge games with him, he agrees. After all, it's better than a crappy summer job in the local shopping mall, and Alton's mother thinks it might secure their way to a good inheritance sometime in the future. But, like all apparently casual choices in any of Louis Sachar's wonderful books, this choice soon turns out to be a lot more complex than ... More
Book Information
PublisherBloomsbury USA Children's Books
BindingPaperback (12 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages352
ISBN-10140880851X
ISBN-13978-1408808511
Publication Date08/01/2011
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About Louis Sachar (Author) : Louis Sachar (IPA: [sækɚ], or "Sacker") (born March 20, 1954) is an American author of children's books who is best known for the Sideways Stories From Wayside School book series and the 1998 novel ... more
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2/2/2011 Peni Griffin said: I'm impressed that Sachar made a plot involving contract bridge interesting. Turns weird (weird is good) on p. 234.
tags: I'm reading

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6/22/2010 Lynndy Bennett tagged as: I read

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