Ellen Raskin

The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)

The disappearance of her husband is only the first of the mysteries Mrs. Carillon must solve.

The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel)

Answering an advertisement for an artist's assistant involves seventeen-year-old Dickory Dock in several mysteries and their ultimate solutions.

The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues

Chronicles the adventures of the unusual Figg family after they left show business and settled in the town of Pineapple.

Figgs and Phantoms

Dunyanin En Tuhaf Oyunu

A nearsighted little girl talks about and shows some of the unusual things she saw before being fitted with glasses.

Spectacles

From the Newbery Award-winning author of THE WESTING GAME, more clever riddles and wordplay, clues to be found, and mysteries to be solved! Glub! Blub! Mrs. Caroline "Little Dumpling" Carillon isn't quite sure what to expect when she sets off to meet her husband, Leon. After all, she hasn't seen him since their wedding when she was five and he was seven. But their reunion is cut short when a storm knocks him off their boat, and he disappears completely, leaving only one very waterlogged clue (Glub! Blub!). Will Dumpling be able to find Leon (or is it Noel) again? And just what is a glub blub?

Westing Game

Moe Q. McGlutch paid no attention to the advice he received from his visiting young cousin.

he smoked too much

Moe Q. McGlutch

Chester Filbert believes nothing ever happens on his block, but other people spot some things Chester has missed.

Nothing Ever Happens on My Block

As Chester sits and comlains about the boring block where he lives, all sorts of exciting, and even strange, things are going on behind his back.

Cumulative verse reveals the sounds made by various animals, but who said chitter-chitter-chatter?

Who, Said Sue, Said Whoo?

"For over forty years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people (including a dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge, a bookie, a burglar, and a bomber) who are invited to the reading of the very strange will of the very rich Samuel W. Westing. They could become millionaires, depending on how they play the 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. Ellen Raskin has entangled a remarkable cast of characters in a puzzle-knotted, word-twisting plot filled with humor, intrigue, and suspense. This unforgettable, timeless classic continues to be cherished by young readers of each new generation." --

The Westing Game

Beloved librarian Madie "Macaroni" Rooney and her shy, intelligent assistant, Chessa "Cheese" Plotz, investigate a crime spree in their quiet resort town of Grouse Lake, Wisconsin.

A Murder for Macaroni and Cheese

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.

And it Rained

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, there is one Figg family member she likes: her Uncle Florence, the book dealer. But Uncle Florence keeps hinting that he's going to find his way to Capri, the Figg family heaven. And that means leaving Mona behind. Can Mona find Capri before it's too late, or will she learn that things are seldom what they seem when books are involved?

Figgs & Phantoms

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.

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