For over thirty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. They could become millionaires-it all depends on how ...
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A Greenwich Village detective posing as an artist hires a student to act as his apprentice, spy, and eyewitness to murder.
Everyone thought Ellen Grae's imagination had fun away with her as she told curious and very funny stories about people she had known. Although her antics were amusing, she knew she didn't make up the strange secret told her by her good friend Ira, who lived with his pet goat Mis...
To become instant millionaires sixteen heirs must unravel the strange will of Samuel W. Westing.
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.
Turtle Wexler's family just moved to a new neighborhood, right next to the haunted Westing Mansion. On a dare from her new friends, Turtle sneaks into the mansion only to find the scene of a crime. It's the biggest mystery in the city's history. With a handful of clues and house ...
Every afternoon in the rain forest the pig, the parrot, and the potto meet for tea; and every afternoon a rainstorm spoils their party until the potto has an idea.
The disappearance of her husband is only the first of the mysteries Mrs. Carillon must solve.
A collection of humorous poems by writers including Ellen Raskin, Karla Kuskin, Ogden Nash, and Arnold Lobel.
A collection of humorous poems about death, doom, ghosts, and other eeried subjects.
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.
A Newbery Medal Winner "A supersharp mystery...confoundingly clever, and very funny." - Booklist , starred review 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-l...
From the Newbery Award-winning author of THE WESTING GAME, more clever riddles and wordplay, clues to be found, and mysteries to be solved! A Newbery Honor book The Amazing Dancing Figgs! While Mona hates all the attention her eccentric relatives bring to her in town, ther...
When the hunting is poor and his family decides to move to town, an Inuit boy is unhappy because he must leave his best friend.