Ellen Raskin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
A Newbery Medal Winner 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 they play the tricky and dangerous Westing game, a game involving blizzards, burglaries, and bombings! Ellen Raskin has created a remarkable cast of...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
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...
7) Spectacles
Author
Pub. Date
1988, c1968
Language
English
Description
A nearsighted little girl talks about and shows some of the unusual things she saw before being fitted with glasses.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Originally published in 1912, Songs of Innocence, was written by the legendary William Blake (1757 – 1827), and illustrated with the stunning drawings of Honor Appleton. It is a collection of nineteen poems, including of 'The Lamb', 'The Blossom', 'Night', 'Spring', 'Nurse's Song', and 'The School-Boy'. The prequel to Songs of Experience, this book redefines our traditional notions of 'paradise' and 'the fall' – representing childhood a state...
11) The westing game
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The strange will of Samuel W. Westing pairs sixteen heirs for a tricky and dangerous game. A unique cast of characters compete in this puzzle-knotted, word-twisting plot.
12) Get a clue!
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
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.
13) Come, Along!
Author
Language
English
Description
Both the text and display type are set in Palatino. The Book was printed by offset. The illustrations are best described by Miss Raskin herself: "I wanted the reader to see beyond the boundaries of the book as I tried to complement the author's word images with acrylic paint on colored rice paper. "
15) Symmetry
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the use of symmetry in design and nature and describes bilateral symmetry, rotational symmetry, the axes of symmetry, and symmetry in various shapes.
