The Westing Game was ranked number nine all-time among childrens novels in a survey published by School Library Journal in 2012. It won the Newbery Medal recognizing the years most distinguished contribution to American childrens literature. 'Great fun for those who enjoy illusion, word play, or sleight of hand.' - The New York Times Book Review The Westing Game is a mystery book written by Ellen Raskin and published by Dutton on May 1, 1978. 'A supersharp nfoundingly clever, and very funny.' - Booklist, starred review The Ellen Raskin papers consist of the art and manuscript work for her last picture book, Twenty-Two, Twenty-Three, published in 1976. Genres Picture Books Childrens Juvenile Humor Ghosts. Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book AwardĪ School Library Journal One Hundred Books That Shaped the Century A mischievous ghost creates havoc at a family reunion in this story related by the poltergeist and a bystander. The letters invite their recipients to move into Sunset Towers, a new apartment building on the lake which, despite. They could become millionaires-it all depends on how they play the tricky and dangerous Westing game, a game involving blizzards, burglaries, and bombings! Ellen Raskin has created a remarkable cast of characters in a puzzle-knotted, word-twisting plot filled with humor, intrigue, and suspense. On the Fourth of July, a 62-year-old delivery boy rides around a town on the edge of Lake Michigan delivering letters signed by a man named Barney Northrup a man who does not exist. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W.

For over thirty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite.

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