The Westing Game
Published on 28. September 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-593-52671-2 (ISBN)
Description
For over forty years, the Newbery Medal-winning classic The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite.
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. And though no one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger-and a possible murderer-to inherit his vast fortune, one thing is for sure: Sam Westing may be dead…but that won't stop him from playing one last game! All they have to do is find the answer-but the answer to what? It's this that stands in their way of becoming millionaires. The Westing game is tricky and dangerous, but the heirs play on…
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. And though no one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger-and a possible murderer-to inherit his vast fortune, one thing is for sure: Sam Westing may be dead…but that won't stop him from playing one last game! All they have to do is find the answer-but the answer to what? It's this that stands in their way of becoming millionaires. The Westing game is tricky and dangerous, but the heirs play on…
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Penguin Putnam Inc
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: From Third Grade to Seventh Grade, Interest Age: From 8 to 12 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 177 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
154 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-593-52671-2 (9780593526712)
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Person
Ellen Raskin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and grew up during the Great Depression. She was the author of several novels, including the Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game, the Newbery Honor-winning Figgs & Phantoms, The Tattooed Potato and other clues, and The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel). She also wrote and illustrated many picture books and was an accomplished graphic artist. She designed dust jackets for dozens of books, including the first edition of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic A Wrinkle in Time. Ms. Raskin died at the age of fifty-six on August 8, 1984, in New York City.