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The Westing Game
by Ellen Raskin
I just read The Lion of Lark-Hayes Manor by Aubrey Hartman (a Whitney Award nominee), and the Goodread reviews for Hartman's novel kept remarking, "Hey, this is like the Westing Game." Consequently, when my local library selected this book for a young readers' book club, I picked up a copy.
They are correct. Hasting's does take the plot of her book from Raskin's novel.
The story involves a set of residents in a condo who are invited to a reading of a will. They then must solve a series of riddles to learn more about the inheritance.
There is one character (nicknamed Turtle) who is a tween. She's the point-of-view character. We learn alone with Turtle more about the dead rich man and about the other residents in the building.
It's a fun book about word play, critical thinking, and human psychology. Even though there is a spooky mansion and a death, the tone stays light and the details vague. It was fun.
They are correct. Hasting's does take the plot of her book from Raskin's novel.
The story involves a set of residents in a condo who are invited to a reading of a will. They then must solve a series of riddles to learn more about the inheritance.
There is one character (nicknamed Turtle) who is a tween. She's the point-of-view character. We learn alone with Turtle more about the dead rich man and about the other residents in the building.
It's a fun book about word play, critical thinking, and human psychology. Even though there is a spooky mansion and a death, the tone stays light and the details vague. It was fun.