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The Westing Game: Anniversary Edition Hardcover - 2003

by Ellen Raskin

For 25 years, Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning mystery novel has been an enduring favorite and is now reissued with a brand-new jacket by Kevin Hawkes and an Introduction by Ann Durell.


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For twenty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite and is now being reissued with a brand-new jacket by Kevin Hawkes and an introduction by Ann Durell.

This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. They could become millionaires, depending on how they play the tricky and dangerous Westing game, which involves blizzards, burglaries, and bombings. Ellen Raskin has entangled a remarkable cast of characters in a puzzle-knotted, word-twisting plot filled with humor, intrigue, and suspense.

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For twenty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite and is now being reissued with a brand-new jacket by Kevin Hawkes and an introduction by Ann Durell. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. They could become millionaires, depending on how they play the tricky and dangerous Westing game, which involves blizzards, burglaries, and bombings. Ellen Raskin has entangled a remarkable cast of characters in a puzzle-knotted, word-twisting plot filled with humor, intrigue, and suspense.

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  • Title The Westing Game: Anniversary Edition
  • Author Ellen Raskin
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Anniversary
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dutton Books for Young Readers, New York
  • Date 2003-10-13
  • Features Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9780525471370 / 0525471375
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 6.25 x 0.75 in (23.50 x 15.88 x 1.91 cm)
  • Ages 10 to 13 years
  • Grade levels 5 - 8
  • Reading level 750
  • Library of Congress subjects Humorous stories, Mystery and detective stories
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004268658
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

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.
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