Ellen Raskin
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| Original Title: | The Westing Game |
| ISBN: | 014240120X (ISBN13: 9780142401200) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Samuel W. Westing, Turtle Wexler, Flora Baumbach, Christos Theodorakis, Denton Deere, J.J. Ford, Alexander McSouthers, Grace Wexler, James Hoo, Berthe Erica Crowe, Otis Amber, Douglas Hoo, Theo Theodorakis, Sydelle Pulaski, Angela Wexler, Sandy Hoo, Jake Wexler |
| Setting: | Westingtown(United States) Milwaukee, Wisconsin(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Newbery Medal (1979), Banta Award, Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1980), Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction (1978), National Book Award Finalist for Children's Book, Fiction (Paperback) (1981) Virginia Reader's Choice |
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this is what i am going to do: i am going to take a red panda, and i am going to learn genetics and i dunno - neuroscience. and welding. and i am going to take a little bit of my brain, and a little bit of everyone's brain here on goodreads.com (you'll be asleep, you wont feel a thing) and then i am going to moosh it all together, and put it in the brain of the red panda. and then i will have the perfect book-recommending resource. because if i had had one of these when i was little, then it would have told me, "you love peggy parrish and her wordplay-based mysteries and you have seen the movie clue enough times that you can recite the whole thing (still can). here's a book you will like". i would have to fine tune it so it works better than the one they have on amazon.com or netflix.com (because, no, i would not like to see the aviator, thank you). i would have loved this book like crazy as a kid. as a grown up, i liked it very much, but thought the characters could have used a little fleshing out to make them more defined. the child-me would not have cared. now i have to go write 250 academic words about it. so much less fun than mad scientisting.
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| Title | : | The Westing Game |
| Author | : | Ellen Raskin |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Penguin |
| Pages | : | Pages: 182 pages |
| Published | : | April 12th 2004 by Puffin (first published June 1st 1978) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Young Adult. Fiction. Childrens. Middle Grade. Classics. Academic. School |
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Ratings: 4.02 From 153032 Users | 10068 ReviewsCrit Epithetical Books The Westing Game
"Today I have gathered together my nearest and dearest, my sixteen nieces and nephews...I, Samuel W. Westing, hereby swear that I did not die of natural causes. My life was taken by me-by one of you!...Cast out the sinner, let the guilty rise and confess. Who among you is worthy to be the Westing heir?" 16 UNLIKELY HEIRS ON THE HUNT OF A MURDERER AMONG THEM? The Westing Game begins.I never would have thought that this is a children's book. Because honestly, the ingenuity of the plotA re-read. Still as much of a gem as I thought when I was in fourth grade, and there aren't many books I can say that about. The last scenes get me every time.
this is what i am going to do: i am going to take a red panda, and i am going to learn genetics and i dunno - neuroscience. and welding. and i am going to take a little bit of my brain, and a little bit of everyone's brain here on goodreads.com (you'll be asleep, you wont feel a thing) and then i am going to moosh it all together, and put it in the brain of the red panda. and then i will have the perfect book-recommending resource. because if i had had one of these when i was little, then it
Duh. 100 stars. The best. Read it whenever I remember to.
I think I first read The Westing Game in third or fourth grade. I checked it out of a public school library in Missouri. I loved it, returned it, and checked it again a few months later on another weekly library visit. Two things: 1. Why should children only go to the library once a week? My education would have been brighter and fuller had I just stayed in the library. Other kids could have had more time with the restroom pass, but instead I hoarded that thing and sat on the white raised seat
I read this with some friends who eschew pantalones. I'd never heard of this book before, despite it being a book for children that was available when I was a child. I think, had I read this way back when, I likely would have enjoyed it a lot more than I did reading it now as a woman who once rode a dinosaur around town, probably. The premise is such: A very rich man leaves a will naming 16 people as his heirs, but only the one who solves The Mystery(tm) will inherit all of the money that
This book sounded like it would be lots of fun, and I read it hoping for a great mystery. In the end I think there were too many characters, and not enough information to make any of them seem real to me. I never really got why they were who they were, except on the most basic level. Each character was just glossed over, and even though they were described in a basic way, there was nothing to really draw me in or make me care about them.
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