The Westing Game [Paperback]

A Newbery Medal Winner

For over thirty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winningThe Westing Gamehas been an enduring favorite.

This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. 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.

Winner of the Newbery Medal
Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award
An ALA Notable Book
A School Library JournalOne Hundred Books That Shaped the Century

A supersharp mystery...confoundingly clever, and very funny. —Booklist, starred review

 

Great fun for those who enjoy illusion, word play, or sleight of hand.  —The New York Times Book Review

A fascinating medley of word games, disguises, multiple aliases, and subterfuges—a demanding but rewarding book.  —The Horn BookPraise forThe Westing Game
* A supersharp mystery...confoundingly clever, and very funny. —Booklist, starred review

Great fun for those who enjoy illusion, word play, or sleight of hand. —The New York Times Book Review

A fascinating medley of word games, disguises, multiple aliases, and subterfuges—a demanding but rewarding book. —The Horn BookEllen Raskin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and grew up during the Great Depression. She was the author of several novels, including the Newbery Medal-winningThe Westing Game, the Newbery Honor-winningFiggs & Phantoms,The Tattooed Potato and other clues, andThe Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel). She also wrote alS"