{"product_id":"the-westing-game-puffin-modern-classics-isbn-9780142401200","title":"The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)","description":"\u003cb\u003eNEWBERY MEDAL WINNER • Ellen Raskin's unforgettable, timeless classic continues to be cherished by young readers of each new generation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Great fun for those who enjoy illusion, word play, or sleight of hand.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eA highly inventive mystery begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of the very strange will of the very rich Samuel W. Westing. They could become millionaires, depending on how they play a game. All they have to do is find the answer—but the answer to what? The Westing game is tricky and dangerous, but the heirs play on—through blizzards, burglaries, and bombings. Sam Westing may be dead ... but that won't stop him from playing one last game!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEllen Raskin has created a remarkable cast of characters in a puzzle-knotted, word-twisting plot filled with humor, intrigue, and suspense.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner of the Boston Globe\/Horn Book Award • An ALA Notable Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Great fun for those who enjoy illusion, word play, or sleight of hand.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A supersharp mystery...confoundingly clever, and very funny.\" —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating medley of word games, disguises, multiple aliases, and subterfuges—a demanding but rewarding book.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Horn Book\u003c\/i\u003eEllen 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Westing Game\u003c\/i\u003e, the Newbery Honor-winning \u003ci\u003eFiggs \u0026amp; Phantoms\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Tattooed Potato and other clues\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel)\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eA Wrinkle in Time. \u003c\/i\u003eMs. Raskin died at the age of fifty-six on August 8, 1984, in New York City.\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTitle Page\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCopyright Page\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDedication\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 - SUNSET TOWERS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2 - GHOSTS OR WORSE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3 - TENANTS IN AND OUT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4 - THE CORPSE FOUND\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5 - SIXTEEN HEIRS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6 - THE WESTING WILL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7 - THE WESTING GAME\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8 - THE PAIRED HEIRS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9 - LOST AND FOUND\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10 - THE LONG PARTY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11 - THE MEETING\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12 - THE FIRST BOMB\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13 - THE SECOND BOMB\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14 - PAIRS REPAIRED\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15 - FACT AND GOSSIP\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16 - THE THIRD BOMB\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17 - SOME SOLUTIONS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 18 - THE TRACKERS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 19 - ODD RELATIVES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 20 - CONFESSIONS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 21 - THE FOURTH BOMB\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 22 - LOSERS, WINNER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 23 - STRANGE ANSWERS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 24 - WRONG ALL WRONG\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 25 - WESTING’S WAKE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 26 - TURTLE’S TRIAL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 27 - A HAPPY FOURTH\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 28 - AND THEN . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 29 - FIVE YEARS PASS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 30 - THE END?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSunset Towers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSunset Towers faced east and had no towers. This glittery, glassy apartment house stood alone on the Lake Michigan shore five stories high. Five empty stories high.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen one day (it happened to be the Fourth of July), a most uncommon-looking delivery boy rode around town slipping letters under the doors of the chosen tenants-to-be. The letters were signed \u003ci\u003eBarney Northrup\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe delivery boy was sixty-two years old, and there was no such person as Barney Northrup. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In [\u003ci\u003eThe Westing Game\u003c\/i\u003e] the author shows once more that no one can beat her at intrigue, at concocting marvelous absurdities.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOTHER TITLES AVAILABLE IN PREMIUM EDITIONS:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSPEAK \u003cbr\u003ePublished by the Penguin Group \u003cbr\u003ePenguin Group (USA) Inc., 345 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. \u003cbr\u003ePenguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, \u003cbr\u003eToronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) \u003cbr\u003ePenguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England \u003cbr\u003ePenguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland \u003cbr\u003e(a division of Penguin Books Ltd) \u003cbr\u003ePenguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia \u003cbr\u003e(a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) \u003cbr\u003ePenguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, \u003cbr\u003ePanchsheel Park, New Delhi - 110 017, India \u003cbr\u003ePenguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand \u003cbr\u003e(a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) \u003cbr\u003ePenguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, \u003cbr\u003eRosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa \u003cbr\u003eRegistered Offices: Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England \u003cbr\u003eFirst published in the United States of America by E. P. Dutton, \u003cbr\u003ea division of Penguin Books USA, Inc., 1978 \u003cbr\u003ePublished by Puffin Books, 1992 \u003cbr\u003eReissued, 1997 \u003cbr\u003eThis edition published by Speak, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2008 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCopyright © Ellen Raskin, 1978\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781101157459\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e■ \u003cb\u003eFOR JENNY\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003ci\u003ewho asked for a puzzle-mystery\u003c\/i\u003e  ■ \u003cb\u003eAND SUSAN K.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil 1970, Ellen Raskin was considered an illustrator, not an author, although she had written the texts of her notable picture books, such as \u003ci\u003eNothing Ever Happens on My Block\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAnd It Rained\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eSpectacles\u003c\/i\u003e. And until 1969, I didn’t really know her, although when I was the children’s-book editor at Holt, Rinehart and Winston, she had illustrated \u003ci\u003eBooks: A Book to Begin On,\u003c\/i\u003e by Susan Bartlett, and \u003ci\u003eCome Along!\u003c\/i\u003e, by Rebecca Caudill—as well as doing for us some of the one thousand book jackets of which she was so proud.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur friendship really began in the smoking car (like the title character of \u003ci\u003eMoe Q. McGlutch\u003c\/i\u003e, Ellen smoked too much) of a Pennsylvania Railroad train en route from New York to Philadelphia, where we were both speaking on a panel. I stopped to say hello, and she said, “I’m sitting here alone because I’m so nervous. I hate speaking.” “I hate it, too,” I said, “and I’ve given up smoking.” In the depressed gloom that followed this exchange, the beginning of a bond was formed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat same year I moved from Holt to E. P. Dutton. Their office was located at Union Square and Seventeenth Street, only a short walk from Ellen’s apartment on Eighth Street, and we got together more often. One day, Ellen confided that she had always wanted to adapt \u003ci\u003eGoblin Market,\u003c\/i\u003e  by Christina Rossetti, as a picture-book text. I thought of the lavishly rich visual details of the poem, and I longed to see how she would illustrate it. ”Would you do the book for me?” I asked. “Yes,” she answered. “Jean [Jean Karl, her editor at Atheneum] doesn’t want it.” Ellen was always  candid. So she did do it—her first book for Dutton. One of her exquisitely intricate paintings for that book now hangs on my wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe often talked about our lives, and I particularly loved stories about her family and how she and her parents and sister drove around the country during the Great Depression so her father could look for work, an epic safari that took them from Milwaukee to California. “You should write a book about growing up in the Depression,” I told her.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Puffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299801321701,"sku":"NP9780142401200","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780142401200.jpg?v=1767742182","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-westing-game-puffin-modern-classics-isbn-9780142401200","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}