Books with title Checkmate

What's the most you've ever lost in a game of chess? Want to play chess? An epidemic of perpetual sleep threatens to drive the world mad... Are you good at it? Unless Alice and the Pillar can solve a global chess game where every world leader plays to save their own country. Good enough to play for your life? Designed by the one Wonderland monster who knows what the Six Impossible keys are for, Alice will have to risk the lives of millions to expose his secret. But that's the least of Alice's fears. She is about face a monster who is on nobody's side, but his. A monster who shares a terrible past with her she can't quite remember. A past that will deepen her struggles with her identity and the things she'd done -- and is about to do. On the other hand Inspector Dormouse is about to discover why Pilla da Killa killed 12 people in cold blood. A discovery that he may soon regret. Will Alice walk the white tiles of the chessboard of life again like she did in the Vatican? Will she triumph over her sins in the past? Will she find love again? Is she really destined to kill the Pillar? And most important of all, who is Carter Pillar, really?

Rhitha's life is miserable - but then she meets Bina.Rhitha's sister has been bullying her all her life, for no reason that Rhitha can see. But when they move to Ruph, there is a new friend in Rhitha's life: with the help of Bina and her unique powers Rhitha begins to see that there might be more going on in her family than meets the eye. There is a secret nobody suspected... Things come to a head between Rhitha and her sister in a clash that draws in everyone around them. Are the peculiar forces at play in Ruph responsible for fanning their conflict? Who is the mysterious stranger that appears at Grandmother's door in the middle of the storm? And can Bina help Rhitha find the strength to stand up to the bullies and become who she is meant to be?

'Another emotional hard-hitter' Sunday Times My name is Callie Rose. My mum is a Cross – one of the so-called ruling elite.My dad was a Nought. My dad was a murderer. My dad was a terrorist.These facts are the only things that are mine and real. So I don’t mind so much that I’m leaving it all behind. There’s nothing here worth holding onto. Sixteen years have passed since Sephy Hadley first met Callum McGregor. For Callie Rose, growing up mixed race in a world where bitter prejudice divides Noughts and Crosses has meant she’s an outsider wherever she turns. Enter Jude McGregor. Jude teaches Callie about her real family history, and the more she learns the more he persuades her where her loyalties really lie. But soon Callie is caught in a trap she can’t get out of – one which will have deadly consequences. Voted as one of the UK's best-loved books, Malorie Blackman's Noughts & Crosses series is a seminal piece of YA fiction; a true modern classic. ‘Dramatic, intensely moving’ Carousel

Walter Dean Myers explores the world of competitive chess seen through the eyes of a group of middle school kids whose self-published newspaper tells it like it is.Sidney Aronofsky is one of the best chess players under age 16. When he's arrested for trying to buy drugs, it comes as a total surprise to those who know him. The expectations of parents, schools, and tutors pressure the young players. Sidney loves and wants to play chess, but dislikes the constant spotlight. He thinks that if he appears to be involved in drugs he'll be excused from playing on the school's team. In this book Zander and his crew are back, using their school newspaper to express their frustrations and triumphs.

In the second book of the CRUISERS series, Walter Dean Myers explores the world of competitive chess as seen through the eyes of a group of middle school misfits.Sidney Aronofsky is one of the best chess players under age 16. When he's arrested for trying to buy drugs, it comes as a total surprise to those who know him. The expectations of parents, schools, and tutors pressure the young players. Sidney loves and wants to play chess, but dislikes the constant spotlight. He thinks that if he appears to be involved in drugs he'll be excused from playing on the school's team. In this book Zander and his creware back, using the Cruiser school newspaper express their frustrations and triumphs.

In the second book of the CRUISERS series, Walter Dean Myers explores the world of competitive chess as seen through the eyes of a group of middle school misfits.Sidney Aronofsky is one of the best chess players under age 16. When he's arrested for trying to buy drugs, it comes as a total surprise to those who know him. The expectations of parents, schools, and tutors pressure the young players. Sidney loves and wants to play chess, but dislikes the constant spotlight. He thinks that if he appears to be involved in drugs he'll be excused from playing on the school's team. In this book Zander and his creware back, using the Cruiser school newspaper express their frustrations and triumphs.

Princess Annalise is in danger, but she doesn’t realize how much. What starts off as a celebratory feast turns into an engagement party as Annalise's father, King Ebastalar of the Sacratus kingdom, promises her hand to the captain of his knights, Caballo. With her heart belonging to another, Annalise is determined to thwart the king’s plans. In the process, she stumbles upon a much larger plot designed by her father's enemy, the Tenebris, to remove her from the kingdom. She soon discovers Caballo’s traitorous ways, as he serves the Tenebris queen, Corryn. Together, Caballo and Corryn will use dark, mystical ways to banish the princess from the only existence she’s ever known. But they don’t know the power Annalise holds…