The Westing Game

A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W Westing s will 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 s for sure Sam Westing may be dead but that won t stop him from playing one last game Best Download [ The Westing Game ] by [ Ellen Raskin ] – kino-fada.fr 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 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 thi...Really fun, and I know without hesitation what third or fourth grade me loved about it I felt like maybe it dragged a tiny bit in the back half of the second act, but I think that s just me getting ahead of the narrative, and being a little out of the demo.But if you re like 11 to 13 Holy crap, you re gonna love this book, and be on boa...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 neve...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 hadtime with the restroom pass, but instead I hoarded that thing and sat on the white raised seat 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 ha...A well written, twisty puzzle of a mystery, filled with fantastic clues, unforgettable characters, and countless red herrings Turtle Wexler will always be a hero to me.I just want to cut to the chase the last three chapters, over the course of about nine pages, are some of the most moving I ve read in a book written for kids life, loss, death growing up and getting old compassion and empathy sadness and mourning, sweetness and light it s all there such a generosity of spirit from Ellen Raskin I would have loved to have known her but I sort...I read this little book for the first time not as a child but as an adult I was looking for a book to kick off our Junior High book club and picked up the Westing Game to see if it might be a good place to begin I wish that I had found this book earlier in my life What kid wouldn t be captivated by wonderful characters thrown together to play a game hosted by a dead millionaire Don t get me wrongMr West...Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows What a wild ride this was, and so much fun I don t know how I would have approached this as a child or young adult, but it made me laugh at so many different stages My brain is still feeling a little tingly I never knew what was going to happen next, and I have a feeling that exactly the way Raskin would have wanted it Can t wait to readof her books She said that she wrote for the Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows What a wild ride this was, and so much fun I don t know how I would have approached this as a child or young adult, but it made me laugh at so many different stages My brain is still feeling a little tingly I never knew what was going to happen next, and I hav...This book was delightful I m still reeling from the fact that the author wrote this straight through without knowing all the plot details or how everything would turn out Sam Westing dies and leaves behind one final game for his 16 heirs who he has move into the same apartment building A bit Agatha Christie mixed in and you are reading about this puzzle Everyone is not who they say they are and the author slowly unravels the mystery.For some reason, this took me far longer to read that it This book was delightful I m still reeling from the fact that the author wrote this straight through without knowing all the plot details or how everything would turn out Sam Westing dies and leaves behind one final game for his 16 heirs who he has move into...The Westing Game, Ellen RaskinThe Westing Game is a mystery book written by Ellen Raskin in 1978 Sunset Towers is a new apartment building on Lake Michigan, north of Milwaukee and just down the shore from the mansion owned by reclusive self made millionaire Samuel W Westing As the story opens, Barney Northrup is selling apartments to a carefully selected group of tenants He claims that chess is not allowed in the building This is a big clue, as Sam Westing loved chess After Sam Westing The Westing Game, Ellen RaskinThe Westing Game is a mystery book written by Ellen Raskin in 1978 Sunset Towers is a new apartment building on Lake Michigan, north of Milwaukee and just down the shore from the mansion owned by reclusive self made millionaire Samuel W Westing As the story opens, Barney Northrup is selling apartments to a carefully selected group of tenants He claims that chess is not allowed in the building This is a big clue, as Sam Westing loved chess After Sam Westing dies, at the beginning of the book, it emerges that most of the tenants are named as heirs in Westing s will The will is structured as a puzzle, wi...

• English
• 27 June 2019
Ellen Raskin
• Paperback
• 182 pages
• 014240120X
• Ellen Raskin
• The Westing Game