The Resource The Westing game, Ellen Raskin
The Westing game, Ellen Raskin
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- Summary
- Overview: 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 182 pages
- Note
- Originally published 1978. This edition includes a new introduction by Ann Durell
- Isbn
- 9780525471370
- Label
- The Westing game
- Title
- The Westing game
- Statement of responsibility
- Ellen Raskin
- Title variation
- Get a clue
- Subject
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- Chicago (Ill.) -- Juvenile fiction
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- Apartment houses -- Juvenile fiction
- trueChicago, Illinois
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- trueHeirs and heiresses
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- Inheritance and succession -- Juvenile fiction
- trueInheritance and succession, Ficiton
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- trueMysteries
- Mystery and detective stories
- trueNeighbors
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Overview: 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
- Summary
- The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance
- Award
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- Banta Award (Wisconsin), 1979.
- Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction, 1978.
- Newbery Medal, 1979.
- Virginia Readers' Choice Award for Middle School, 1984.
- Awards note
- Newbery Medal, 1979.
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- 097394
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Raskin, Ellen
- Dewey number
- [Fic]
- Index
- no index present
- Intended audience
-
- Interest age level : Ages 10-14
- Lexile: 750L
- 750
- Intended audience source
- Lexile
- Interest level
- MG
- LC call number
- PZ7.R1817
- LC item number
- We 2003
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
- 750
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel
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- 7
- 9
- Reading level
- 5.3
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- Inheritance and succession
- Apartment houses
- Inheritance and succession
- Apartment houses
- Mystery and detective stories
- Humorous stories
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Target audience
- pre adolescent
- Label
- The Westing game, Ellen Raskin
- Link
- Note
- Originally published 1978. This edition includes a new introduction by Ann Durell
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 21063709
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 182 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525471370
- Lccn
- 2004268658
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other control number
- 9780525471370
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)ocm53292898
- (OCoLC)53292898
- Label
- The Westing game, Ellen Raskin
- Link
- Note
- Originally published 1978. This edition includes a new introduction by Ann Durell
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 21063709
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 182 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525471370
- Lccn
- 2004268658
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other control number
- 9780525471370
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)ocm53292898
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Subject
- trueBooks to movies
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Juvenile fiction
- trueApartment houses
- Apartment houses -- Fiction
- Apartment houses -- Juvenile fiction
- trueChicago, Illinois
- trueClassics
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- Inheritance and succession -- Juvenile fiction
- trueInheritance and succession, Ficiton
- trueMurder investigation
- trueMysteries
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- trueClassic Mysteries for Older Kids
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- trueVirginia Readers' Choice Award: Middle School (Grades 6-9)
- trueWisconsin Library Association Literary Award
- trueNewbery Medal
- trueMust-read Classics for Older Kids
- trueClassic Mystery : Fiction for Grades 3-5
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