Ellen Raskin

"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...

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

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

This gem of lyric prose has enchanted both young and old for over half a century and is now a modern classic. Dylan Thomas captures a child's-eye view and an adult's fond remembrance of a magical time of presents, good things to eat, aunts and uncles, the frozen sea, and the best of circumstances, newly fallen snow - its wonder, silence, and snowball mischief. --Back cover.

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 full of suspects, Turtle gathers the evidence with her brainy partner Chris to cash in on a $20 million dollar reward.