The new residents of Sunset Towers are an eclectic bunch, most of whom have some connection to Westing, whether they know it or not. The story follows a wild competition for the enormous inheritance of paper-products magnate Sam Westing, who has set up his 16 "heirs" in an apartment complex near the old man's mansion on a hill on Lake Michigan.
THE WESTING GAME, originally published in 1978, is a Newberry-winning mystery by accomplished YA novelist Ellen Raskin. Please don't give a bad rating b/c your kid wasn't ready. You are the judge of when your kids can handle it (read it first, it'll take 3 nights total if you are a super slow reader like me).
I have read every Agatha Christie and every mystery/thriller author I can find BECAUSE of The Westing Game. The Westing Game is a brilliant, well-written mystery. I tried Harry Potter a year earlier and failed. The negative reviewer either doesn't know when or how to read books to kids. He loves this book.Īfter Harry Potter, I wanted to test mysteries. One kid was very bothered by main characters getting in trouble like Draco catching Harry in the Slytherin train car. My kids, 6 and 8, read (aloud) the Harry Potter) books first. this sounds discounting to most of you, but if your read the book yourself, your can tell your kid - it's the Westing GAME, and don't worry. There are references to finding a corpse early on. Also may not be appropriate until much older. Ford) the entrepreneurial inventor and Chinese restaurant owner (James Hoo) who's putting too much pressure in the wrong direction on his son (Doug), who's more interested in sports than school the ever-busy and absent husband (Jake) with low self-esteem because he isn't a satisfactory breadwinner for his wife (Grace), a hypochondriac who fakes a limp for attention a teenager with a crippling neurological disease and many more memorable characters, all with different lessons to teach one another as they're thrown into a suddenly thrilling and nefarious situation. There's the successful African-American judge who struggles to suppress fears that she's a token success story or has been helped along the way by her Westing connection (J.J. The hardworking immigrant family, the long-suffering industrial worker (or is he?), the social-climbing would-be heiress, the treasured daughter, and many more stereotypes are explored and revealed as incomplete caricatures of real, multidimensional people with complicated pasts. The story contains both good and bad role models, many of whom turn out to be more than whom they initially are perceived to be.
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