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When Alton''s ageing, blind uncle asks him to attend bridge games with him, he agrees. After all, it''s better than a crappy summer job in the local shopping mall, and Alton''s mother thinks it might secure their way to a good inheritance sometime in the future.

But, like all apparently casual choices in any of Louis Sachar''s wonderful books, this choice soon turns out to be a lot more complex tha...