Bestselling children’s chapter book author Ellen Raskin is best known for her Newbery Medal -winning The Westing Game, but that’s not the only age-appropriate mystery she’s written for grades three and up.
Kids who love books starring kid sleuths are going to love these, because in Ellen Raskin’s novels it’s the reader who gets to play detective!
The Westing Game (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $4.99)
“A supersharp mystery…confoundingly clever, and very funny.” —Booklist, starred review
A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. Westing’s will. And though no one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger—and a possible murderer—to inherit his vast fortune, on things for sure: Sam Westing may be dead…but that won’t stop him from playing one last game!
Winner of the Newbery Medal
Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award
An ALA Notable Book
“Great fun for those who enjoy illusion, word play, or sleight of hand.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A fascinating medley of word games, disguises, multiple aliases, and subterfuges—a demanding but rewarding book.” —The Horn Book
The Tattooed Potato (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $5.98)
From the Newbery Award-winning author of THE WESTING GAME, more clever riddles and wordplay, clues to be found, and mysteries to be solved!
Wanted: Assistant to a painter (and a secret sleuth)
Dickory Dock has come to 12 Cobble Lane to take the job as painter’s assistant to the artist Garson. The townhouse looks charming and quaint, but inside its redbrick walls lurk suspicious characters, multiple mysteries, and one very eccentric portrait artist.
Clues abound; and suddenly Dickory finds herself assisting Garson not in art but in crime solving. Can Dickory untangle the web of mysteries within mysteries and discover the true secret hiding on Cobble Lane?
The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel) (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $5.98)
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 completely, leaving only one very waterlogged clue (Glub! Blub!).
Will Dumpling be able to find Leon (or is it Noel) again? And just what is a glub blub?
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