Louis Sachar's The Cardturner
Only Louis Sachar could make something like bridge seem cool. In this book, teenager Alton is enlisted to assist his blind, rich, dying great-uncle by serving as his cardturner at bridge (ie, telling him what cards he has and whatnot). Of course, nothing in a Sachar story is ever that simple, and of course there are family secrets, and a maybe-crazy but cute girl, and an awesome little sister. And lots and lots of bridge talk (which Sachar makes easy to skip--I read the first bunch of sections and then was like, ok, enough already, and just read the handy summaries). The end is a little too tidy, perhaps, but the parts along the way are pretty great, bridge talk notwithstanding. A-.
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