Other editions of book Checkmate

After P.J. and his family move to Texas, he has trouble fitting in at his new school and finds himself increasingly ashamed of his deaf father, but when he joins the chess club he finds his life turning around for the better.

Embarassed by his father's deafness and bullied by kids at school, P. J. Ramos finds strength in a new friendship, a chessboard, and an army of tiny soldiers.