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 Elsa's chessboard
 Author: Andrus, Jenny Gewing

 Publisher:  Neal Porter Books (2025)

 Dewey: 305.906
 Classification: Biography
 Physical Description: [42] p., col. ill., 23 x 29 cm

 BTSB No: 062119 ISBN: 9780823454082
 Ages: 4-8 Grades: K-3

 Subjects:
 Weisz, Elsa
 Chess
 Refugees -- Biography
 Immigration and emigration -- Biography
 Jews -- Biography
 World War, 1939-1945 -- Biography
 Austria -- History -- 1938-1945
 San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century

Price: $23.28

Summary:
A woman's passion for chess endures from her childhood in Vienna through her emigration to San Francisco as a Jewish refugee of WWII. Based on the life of the author's grandmother, Elsa Konstandt Weisz.

 Illustrator: Downing, Julie

Reviews:
   Kirkus Reviews (02/01/25)
   School Library Journal (00/03/25)
   Booklist (03/01/25)
 The Hornbook (+) (00/05/25)

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