In the slums of Kampala, Uganda, Phiona Mutesi sleeps in a decrepit shack with her mother and three siblings and struggles to find a single meal each day. Phiona is also one of the world's best chess players. One day in 2005 while searching for food, nine-year-old Phiona met Robert Katende, a war refugee turned missionary. Katende had an improbable dream: to empower slum kids through chess - a game for which there is no word in their language.
- ISBN10 145165782X
- ISBN13 9781451657821
- Publish Date 15 October 2013 (first published 9 October 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Scribner Book Company
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 256
- Language English