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Hogwarts Express : It that time again...		11	readafew, Yesterday 11:41am
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : What lauren97224 (and you...) are reading		107	lauren97224, Sunday 1:59pm
50 Book Challenge : CompSki's Books!		112	compskibook, Saturday 7:42pm
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : What We Are Reading - Young Adult		399	avatiakh, December 4
Read YA Lit : recommendations for a 12 year old girl?		58	cnposner, November 13
1010 Category Challenge : callen610's 10/10/10 Challenge		19	callen610, November 10
Read YA Lit : What is your favorite YA title?		187	fullofsound, November 5
What Are You Reading Now? : Books Brought Home - October 2009		180	momom248, November 1
Read YA Lit : YA Book Reading October 2009		51	kmartin802, October 28
Book talk : Teen Reading: HELP!		55	Sparkie784, October 12
Newbery Challenge : pbadeer's		3	Whisper1, October 7
999 Challenge : MusicMom41's 999 challenge		341	MusicMom41, October 6
Crime, Thriller & Mystery : New here need recommendation		15	avaland, October 5
999 Challenge : Cmbohn's 999, part 2		199	cmbohn, October 3
Book talk : 5 Books you read as a kid that you would like all kids to read		69	ecco-liz-1, September 26
Progressive & Liberal! : Children's book recommendations?		29	sweetdissident, September 5
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : MusicMom41's 2009 Reads 2nd Quarter		356	Cauterize, September 4
Folio Society devotees : Which books would you like to see as Folio volumes?		453	mailer, August 30
Crime, Thriller & Mystery : YA Mystery List?		18	pkg427, August 20
100 Books Challenge for 2009 : MissTeacher reads her little eyes out! 120 in 2009!		45	MissTeacher, August 9
Go Review That Book! : Game Thread 3		250	lilyfyrestorm, June 23
Hogwarts Express : What are you reading in May? (Besides this thread...)		218	biblioholic29, June 1
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : GraceMcClain's Reading List 2009		33	alcottacre, May 16
Name that Book : mystery book		4	MerryMary, April 10
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : MusicMom41's 2009 Reads		287	FAMeulstee, April 3
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Whisper's 2009 Reading Take Two		291	Whisper1, March 30
What Are You Reading Now? : What Were Your Favorite Books as a Kid?		90	deniro, March 3
Hogwarts Express : What are you reading in February?		206	lefty33, February 28
Club Read 2009 : **Why Do Adults Read YA Novels?		113	Fullmoonblue, February 27
Newbery Challenge : Nicole's list		11	nmhale, February 5
Hogwarts Express : 2008 in review: books read		23	Kerian, January 6
Children's Literature : Books for 5th Graders		41	TweenagerReads, January 2
Crime, Thriller & Mystery : Suggestions for a mystery with an ingenious plot		12	quartzite, November 2008
Read YA Lit : September 2008 - What are you reading?		61	araKnid, October 2008
BookMooching : Never thought to mooch until...?		26	jibrailis, September 2008
Book talk : Best book title		89	MerryMary, August 2008
The Green Dragon : Books that you have enjoyed the most~ fiction		44	Severn, July 2008
Hogwarts Express : What are you reading NOW.......IV		303	Whicker, July 2008
Hogwarts Express : New Books!		40	Smiley_Scorpio, April 2008
Dormant: Black Cats with Books : we love to read		30	kt_russell, April 2008
Dormant: Read YA Lit : Need Newbery Recommdation		14	LibrarysCat, January 2008
Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : thegreattimsbooklist 2007		21	thegreattimsbooklist, January 2008
Dormant: The Literati : Books as gifts for the holidays		8	Kell_Smurthwaite, December 2007
Dormant: Read YA Lit : looking for a good YA mystery		14	AtomicGirl, November 2007
Dormant: What did YOU buy today? : If you didn't buy a book today, what was the last book you bought and when?		105	Jenson_AKA_DL, June 2007
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Dormant: Book talk : Junior High Classics?		22	Schmerguls, January 2007

... Greatest Show on Earth, Harry Potter Should Have Died, and Lords of Finance Cosette, Foucault's Pendulum, and The Westing Game As 2009 comes to a close, we're turning the page on a decade. Entertainment Weekly released their best books and entertainers of the decade, here: http:/ ...

I already have The Maze Runner and The Westing Game in the BlackHole. I am adding A Kiss in Time. Thanks for the recommendations!

... all of Flinn's books, it always works. I am really looking foward to getting some more of Flinn's books. I finished The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin I liked the ending though it was somewhat unrealistic. It was hard to follow at some points, expecially the beginning, and I didn't ...

107. Playing with Fire by Melody Carlson 108. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin An on and off read for school

... enjoyed it! Next, in between reading Crime and Punishment and Wild Swans for school, I think I'm going to go for either The Westing Game or Snow White and Rose Red.

From some tag saling today - The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke and The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

... by Judy Blume, ★★★★★ (11/1) 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Possible Inclusions/Suggestions: The Westing Game (Ellen Raskin) Elsewhere (Gabrielle Zevin) Smiles to Go (Jerry Spinelli) Summer of My German Soldier (Bette Greene) Graceling (Kristin Cashore) ...

... seems like a good one to me. Great book. This doesn't fit the bad guy idea either, but a fun mystery for that age is The Westing Game. My 23 year old daughter read it at that age and still reads it once a year.

The Westing Game, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Charlotte's Web, A Wrinkle in Time, Little House on the Prairie I'll probably think of others that would be top 5, but I went with the first 5 that came to mind. As I hit submit I thought of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. F ...

... of a Pigeon (1927) The Dark Frigate (1923) Crispin: The Cross of Lead (2003) It's Like This, Cat (1963) The Westing Game (1978) The Tale of Despereaux (2003) Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze (1932) Missing May (1992) The Whipping Boy (1986) Holes (1998) ...

oooh, I like the sound of the Westing Game! Sorry your birthday plans got rained out again - maybe it'll make them all the more enjoyable when you do get to them?! ;) ...boooo to working all weekend...

Violet I read Westing Game earlier this year. I agree--it's a great YA that can also appeal to adults. My husband is an entomologist (insect man!) and I love poetry--I'm going to look for Butterfly Eyes--it would a nice one to share with our young grandsons when they come here for Chris ...

... This book would be great as an introduction to poetry , esp for children who are interested in insects. Recommended. (78)The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin Young adult, fiction, mystery. Sixteen people are gathered for the reading of the will of Samuel Westing. Separated into pairs, they ...

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin is a good mystery.

The Arabian Nightmare The Westing Game The Mousehole Cat Aura (how many 2nd person narration books does FS have?)

... Patricia Killip. Terry Pratchett's Discworld books are awesomely hilarious satires of everything under the sun. The Westing Game was one of my favorite mysteries when I was a teenager. Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea books are classics of fantasy for good reason. If you like ...

... compelled to read it again. This time around, I did enjoy it, but it wasn't the sort of experience I get when I pick up The Westing Game or James and the Giant Peach and say to myself, "Oh, boy, this is my favorite part!" In case you haven't read it, this is about Meg Murry, her ...

The Westing Game is a much older one, but I loved her as a kid. Also the Sherlock Holmes stories are good.

... rtis 1996W - Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman 1995H - Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman 1979W - Westing Game by Ellen Raskin 1968W - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg 1961H - Cricket in Times Square by George Selden ...

I just read The Westing Game a few weeks ago. I'm definitely putting that in the favorites stack.

Loooooove The Westing Game - reread it last year :) I'm a bit over halfway through The Lightning Thief; I'm glad for something I can speed through, since Lamplighter is REALLY good, but really dense prose for "young adult."

... This evening, I'm going to start The Fabulist. On top of The Fabulist I have 5 more books from the library. They are The Westing Game (for a reread), the Furies of Calderon, No Limits: the Will to Succeed, Bases Loaded by Kirk Radomski, and What Liberal Bias.

I know my now 23 year old daughter would say The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, a Newbery-winning mystery filled with plot twists. It has been her favorite for many years.

... on the uptake concerning the ending, it definitely stays with you versus some other stories that just fade away. 30. The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin - What a great book! I can definitely see the comparisons and inspiration (whether or not intentional) for the 39 Clues series, but ...

At that age my daughter loved the Tamora Pierce books like Alanna, and The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. Hope was Here by Joan Bauer is another excellent one, among many she has written.

I'm thinking The Westing Game. Your details are vague, but I remember the cover.

... in the Attic (nonfiction) March: 19. Gaiman, Neil: The Graveyard Book (3/02/09) 4 stars 20. Raskin, Ellen: The Westing Game (3/4/09) 3 ½ Stars 21. Konigsburg, E.L.: The View from Saturday (3/7/09) 4 ½ Stars 22. McEvedy, Colin: The Penguin Atlas of African History (3/14/ ...

... by Rick Riordan 1/15/09 - 1/16/09, ***1/2 #7: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket 1/16/09 - 1/17/09, **1/2 #8: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin 1/17/09 - 1/18/09, ***1/2 #9: Eragon by Christopher Paolini 1/17/09 - 1/21/09, **** #10: The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer 1/2 ...

Thanks for stopping by cmbohn. The Westing Game was recommended to me by Whisper1. She is reading a lot of Newbery winners and I've been picking and choosing the ones she likes!

... I really hated The Man in the Queue though, the ending was just tacked on and didn't fit the book at all! I loved The Westing Game when I was a kid. She has written several other kids books, and I have enjoyed all of them. Figgs and Phantoms is probably the easiest of her other books ...

... Connolly. Another dark fantasy read I have yet to make is Margo Lanagan's Tender Morsels which is YA crossover. I read The Westing Game last year and thought it was clever and different. I'd definitely recommend it to kids who love to read.

... to have you and allthesedarnbooks along with me on the journey through the Newbery classics. I'm currently regarding The Westing game.

... for a young boy who doesn’t always obey the rules. Highly recommended. 4 stars Book 20: Raskin, Ellen: The Westing Game 999X Newbery Winners (3/4/09) Library 182 pages A group of people are specially selected to live in a brand new condominium type edifice and become ...

... for a young boy who doesn’t always obey the rules. Highly recommended. 4 stars Book 20: Raskin, Ellen: The Westing Game 999X Newbery Winners (3/4/09) Library 182 pages A group of people are specially selected to live in a brand new condominium type edifice and become ...

... at this point. Thanks! In fact yesterday when went to the Friends of the Library meeting on a whim I picked up The Westing Game which was mentioned recently and that's what I read yesterday. (I'll review it soon on my thread.) I think today when I run my errands I'll go get The Vi ...

Amy, Thanks for recommending The Westing Game. I recently joined the Newberry Award Winner group here on LT. I'm hoping to read many books on this list in 2009. Up next is your recommendation...

For some reason, The Mixed-up Files always reminds me of one of my other favorite Newbery Medal books, The Westing Game; I must have read them both during the same unit in my language arts class in school. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend it. I've read it about once a year since ...

... titles from my own pre- and early-teens during the past year or two. These include Matilda and Boy by Roald Dahl, The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, Julie of the Wolves, The Year Without Michael, The Trouble with Wednesdays, and a few Nancy Drew titles. Tutoring middle ...

... /www.librarything.com/picsizes/80/8d/86cfed1adfe082413b0003900808df1d.jpg"> After all these years I still really love The Westing Game. It definitely deserves the Kleenex tag that I gave it. I was crying so hard I couldn't read. Great characters, all sixteen of them, a challenging mystery, ...

... but I loved hearing about how the first book was picked up and published. Next I have decided on a comfort reread: The Westing Game. It was the hot book to read when I was in sixth grade back in the dark ages :)

I loved the Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh all of them The Phantom Tollbooth Tuck Everlasting The Westing Game Bunnicula all of them, esp. Howliday Inn Everything Roald Dahl The Secret Language Charlotte's Web Encyclopedia Brown The Christy Miller series (anyone ...

... - Jacob Have I Loved 1980 Joan Blos - A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal 1979 Ellen Raskin - The Westing Game 1978 Katherine Paterson - Bridge to Terabithia 1977 Mildred Taylor - Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 1976 Susan Cooper - Th ...

... Me to Harold Square Magical Beasts and Where to Find Them Battle Royale *The Importance of Being Earnest *The Westing Game *The Cat Ate My Gymsuit *The Witches George's Marvelous Medicine *A Wrinkle in Time The Twits *A Wind in the Door *A Swiftly Tilting Pla ...

Category X: Newbery Winners 1. Gaiman, Neil: The Graveyard Book (fantasy) (3/02/09) 2. Raskin, Ellen: The Westing Game (mystery) (3/04/09) 3. Konigsburg, E.L.: The View from Saturday (3/07/09) 4. Kadohata, Cynthia: Kira-Kira (3/31/09) 5. McKinley, Robin: The Hero and the Cr ...

... The death is of natural causes. Not great lit, but fun. If you don't mind dipping into the children's section, The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin is a fun puzzle mystery. Somebody suggested Dorothy L. Sayers -- her Gaudy Night is fantastic and I wouldn't consider it to have a ...

So far this month I've read Savvy, Superior Saturday, The Westing Game, Silverboy, The Magic Thief, City in the lake, Diamond of Drury Lane, Otherworldlies, Exodus, The Starry Rift, The Navigator and City of Time, and Chosen, Infidel, Renegade, and Chaos. Currently I ...

... of my old favorites to give to my niece. I was thinking The Island of the Blue Dolphins, Roald Dahl's Matilda, and The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. Isn't it wonderful, the stories you remember while browsing people's inventories? :) Elizabeth ("fullmoonblue")

Kids books have the best titles: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler The Missing Persons League The Westing Game ETA: The House With a Clock in its Walls

... that I have read over and over, and go back to whenever I want to read something comfortingly familiar. Primarily: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, and Wall of Words by Tim Kennemore, which both reliably make me cry every time, even though I must have read them literally ...

... need some encouragement to pick up things in the library I've had around a while. Lilyfyrestorm, I'm glad someone likes The Westing Game because that book brought me to the brink of quitting reading in middle school. For you I choose A Streetcar Named Desire, mostly because I started at ...

Oh! You guys! I love Ellen Raskin! I read The Westing Game once a year... I have finished The Property of a Lady and my review is here. It was pretty decent. fyrefly98, I have read the Abhorsen Trilogy, and I see that ...

... but overall I was unimpressed. tjsjohanna - how about The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon for you? I love The Westing Game, but I've never read any of her other stuff. Whoever's picking for me, please choose from my TBR tag.

Yeah lefty it is funny how somethings grab and other don't. I wanted to like it because it reminded me of The Westing Game and had the moral element like the Lemony Snicket books but the plot felt a little contrived. I did like the characters.

Probably When We Were Very Young or Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. I also really like the Westing Game, which everyone MUST read!

Probably When We Were Very Young or Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. I also really like the Westing Game, which everyone MUST read!

... specifically want progressive/humanist books? This is a list of ones I enjoyed at that age... For older children (8+): The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright Wait 'till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn The Cas ...

... Phantom Stallion seires, Heartland, and The Misadventures of Maud March. Also, I love the Harry Potter's and the Westing Game. If I was stranded on a desert island, I would take my whole Phantom Stallion seires. Twenty -four books, all about horses... I'm in heaven!

... his stories in myAlfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and some of my other Alfred Hitchcock books. I also have the book The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin which I have never gotten around to reading yet. But I have intended to do it some day. Now I might start as soon as I can finish some of ...

#1 I LOVE the Westing Game, when I was in elementary school I reread it every year. In the small town where I live we have three used bookstores, a Rare and used on the corner, another rare and used across the street and a few stores up from the first and a used bookstore run by the local Senio ...

... LOTS of awesome used bookstores and thrift stores that have incredible book sections. SO... Here's today's haul: The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, Paula Danziger and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, The Witches, The Enormous Crocodile, and ...

... up a nice SFBC 50th Aniv. edition and decided, against my normal procedure, to re-read this delightful book. (10/10) 52. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin On a strong recommendation from my fellow bookstore employee, I read this YA, Newberry award winning mystery. (6/10) 53. The World With ...

>8 Really? Why not? I loved The Westing Game. Picked it out for my SantaThingee, in fact. Different strokes, I guess. Also, nobody's yet mentioned Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, but that's another favorite of mine.

here's a good place to look: http://newberryproject.blogspot.com/ one I do not recommend is The Westing Game...

Looks like I missed something having never read The Westing Game myself. Maybe I'll have to pick it up. My mother-in-law has weird taste, so I bought her the Mutter Museum photograph book. I bought my sister-in-law the first Tuesday Next book last year and she quickly read through them ...

Oh, The Westing Game was one of my favorite books as a kid! Fantastic gift! I'm getting A Day to Pick Your Own Cotton for my Mom (it's a sequel to a book she really liked); L.L. Bean: The Making of an American Icon for my mother-in-law, who makes yearly trips to the L.L.Bean store in Maine ...

... I still don't have my own copy. Niece (this is my favorite person to buy gifts for. I love picking out kids books): The Westing Game - I wish I'd read this as a kid. It sounds great! The City of Ember The Tale of Despereaux Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective - I loved this ...

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. Superbly plotted, excellent writing, and memorable characters. The twist is wonderful.

I hope she likes it, I enjoyed it enough just reading The Westing Game to myself. There is also Island of the Blue Dolphins for a more female centric main character. I also remember On My Honor from my internship in 5th grade about two boys that one of them has an accident and is (hurt? ...

She just got Lemony Snicket but hasn't had a chance to read them, and she does have Harry Potter. The Westing Game is new, though. Thank you!

... grade for four years and last year taught 4th grade. I recommend, of course, Harry Potter and Lemony Snicket. Also The Westing Game which is sort of a mystery about a rich old man who leaves clues for his potential heirs to figure out. Whoever does it, gets the inheritance. I'll check ...

i recently bought Train Man by Hitori Nakano and another copy of The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. KromesTomes: wow, great book loot! don't you just love a book sale? (though i wasn't too happy with the melissa p. book. but that's just me.) enjoy!

... Bradbury, probably some Michael Crichton, Madeleine L'Engle, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Christopher Pike, The Westing Game.... and any more and the touchstones are probably going to cough and die. That help?

... from each decade: 2000s Tale of Despereaux 1990s Maniac Magee 1980s Jacob Have I Loved 1970s The Westing Game 1960s Onion John 1950s Miracles on Maple Hill 1940s The Twenty-one Balloons I'll let you know my picks from the '30s and '20s when I've ...