The Westing Game
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Penguin Young Readers Group , 2004.
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BE CLASSIC with The Westing Game, introduced by New York Times bestselling author Mac Barnett.NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER • Ellen Raskin's unforgettable, timeless classic continues to be cherished by young readers of each new generation.A highly inventive mystery begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of the very strange will of the very rich Samuel W. Westing. They could become millionaires, depending on how they play a game. All they have to do is find the answer—but the answer to what? The Westing game is tricky and dangerous, but the heirs play on—through blizzards, burglaries, and bombings. Sam Westing may be dead ... but that won't stop him from playing one last game! Ellen Raskin has created a remarkable cast of characters in a puzzle-knotted, word-twisting plot filled with humor, intrigue, and suspense.Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award An ALA Notable Book A School Library Journal One Hundred Books That Shaped the Century

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eBook
Street Date
04/12/2004
Language
English
ISBN
9781101157459

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Publisher's Weekly Review

The reading of a will initiates a murder mystery in this 1979 Newbery Medal winner. Ages 10-up. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Kirkus Book Review

A supersharp mystery, more a puzzle than a novel, but endowed with a vivid and extensive cast. In the Christie tradition, Raskin isolates a divers group of strangers--the mysteriously hand-picked tenants of a new apartment building within sight of the old Westing mansion--and presents them with the information that one of them is the murderer. Actually, it turns out that there is no corpse, but no one is aware of that when they are all assembled for a reading of old Westing's fiendish will, which pairs them all off and allots each pair four one-word clues to the murderer's identity. As the winning pair is to inherit Westing's fortune, there is much secret conferring, private investigating, far-out scheming, and snitching and scrambling of the teasing, enigmatic clues. (For example, those of black judge Josie Jo Ford, which she takes for a racial insult, read SKIES AM SHINING BROTHER.) As a result of the pairings, alliances are made and suspended, and though there is no murderer there is a secret winner--the pigtailed youngest of the ""heirs""--plus extravagant happy endings for all. As Westing had warned, all are not what they seem, and you the reader end up liking them better than you expected to. If Raskin's crazy ingenuity has threatened to run away with her on previous occasions, here the complicated game is always perfectly meshed with character and story. Confoundingly clever, and very funny. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Raskin, E. (2004). The Westing Game . Penguin Young Readers Group.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Raskin, Ellen. 2004. The Westing Game. Penguin Young Readers Group.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Raskin, Ellen. The Westing Game Penguin Young Readers Group, 2004.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Raskin, E. (2004). The westing game. Penguin Young Readers Group.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Raskin, Ellen. The Westing Game Penguin Young Readers Group, 2004.

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