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  <title><![CDATA[The Westing Game]]></title>
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  <default_description> When an eccentric millionaire dies mysteriously, sixteen very unlikely people are  gathered together for the reading of the will . . . and what a will it is!</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1978</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ellen Raskin]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[  I think I first read The Westing Game in third or fourth grade.  I checked it out of a public school library in Missouri.  I loved it, returned it, and checked it again a few months later on another weekly library visit.  Two things: 1. Why should children only go to the library once a week?  My e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37806564">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Mar 20 20:28:33 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this little book for the first time not as a child - but as an adult.  I was looking for a book to kick off our Junior High book club and picked up the Westing Game to see if it might be a good place to begin.  <br/>   I wish that I had found this book earlier in my life.  What kid wouldn't ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18251697">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 31 10:57:39 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Feb 04 06:42:51 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Westing Game is about 16 heirs competeing for Sam's Westing's inheritance. This book is a clever  mystery full of excitement, danger. and suspicion. There are 8 teams, each team has a set of clues and together they must understand them. Together you must find out who Mrs. Westing is and who kill...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14173604">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Mar 02 12:42:20 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 02 12:50:20 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book sounded like it would be lots of fun, and I read it hoping for a great mystery. In the end I think there were too many characters, and not enough information to make any of them seem real to me. I never really got why they were who they were, except on the most basic level. Each character ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48021876">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a child, I probably read this book as many times as I watched the movie &quot;Clue&quot; (brilliance), and that is a lot! I loved (and still love) anything with a clever girl as a protagonist. Turtle can stand her ground among Nancy Drew and her ilk. Raskin's cast of characters feels somehow simu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11204694">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first picked up this book in high school, if I remember correctly, from the high school’s library. I fell in love almost immediately, and when I recently saw a copy at Half-Price Books I picked it up so that I could own it. <br/><br/>“The Westing Game” is a wonderful, clever and engaging b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44949444">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yes, this is a children’s book – a Newbery Medal winner from 1978. This was also my absolute favorite book from when I read it as a third grader until I was in middle school and discovered fantasy fiction. I saw it in a used bookstore and decided to press my luck and re-read it, hoping it wouldn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20720733">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 07:39:56 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The writing is straightforward, but the plot is anything but simplistic. An eclectic group of persons gather for the reading of a will. Sam Westing, multi-millionaire, has a mystery for them to solve — the winner receives the entire inheritance. But what, exactly, are they supposed to discover? An...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16688585">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4813142">
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    <body><![CDATA[Summary:  Seemingly unrelated families and individuals receive invitations to rent in a new apartment complex.  Two months later, a millionaire is found dead in a nearby house, and most of the building's residents are invited (through the dead man's will) to solve his murder for the opportunity to w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4813142">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alright, I finally read it. The copy I read has a copyright date of 1978. So it was kind of interesting to read a book that was born the same year I was!<br/><br/>Amazingly, the fact that it was such an old copy was slightly distracting. The changes in stylistic trends is quite amazing. I didn't r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14237098">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7293090">
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    <body><![CDATA[The Westing Game is one of my all-time-favorite mysteries.  Mr. Westing is found dead in his mansion, and in order to win his fortune, sixteen would-be heirs must compete to win the Westing Game.  Full of complexity and suspense, the plot lays all the clues before the reader but still manages to kee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7293090">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8976033">
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    <body><![CDATA[The Westing Game<br/><br/>By Cynthia Saravia <br/><br/>The Westing Game  is a Thiller book. It is about the death of Mr.Westing. He has 16 people to<br/><br/> take his money. They are paired into  groups and the group who figues out the puzzle wins<br/><br/> the money and his land. But what ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8976033">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Mar 13 14:01:57 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[To me, this book is so my childhood. I remember reading it over and over again growing up and somehow it never got old... the ridiculous antics of the characters, which were somehow realistic despite the fact that they're obviously caricatures, the mystery behind it all, and the constants twists and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17694126">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48512206">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow!  I liked everything about this book.  I like the way Ellen Raskin writes.  I love the characters she created in this book and I enjoyed the heck out of the mystery.  This was just fun all the way around.]]></body>
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    <review id="31456851">
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  <date_added>Thu Aug 28 14:10:17 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 28 14:12:39 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is one of my all time favorites. I love the plot twists and the ending is great, although I won't spoil it for you. The characters have a lot of personality, the book is funny, and it keeps you turning the pages every time you read it. I really recommend this book to anyone who enjoys unex...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31456851">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There was a lot that was really cute about this book.  There were some wonderful characters but there was an awful lot of them.  It kind of seemed like this would be a lot for an elementary student to keep track of.  And only someone REALLY smart could have figured out the mystery on their own the w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44403943">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Awesome well-written children's mystery.  While this book is written for and very approachable as a children's novel, it is enjoyable as an adult as well.  I only discovered this book this past year and I absolutely enjoyed it.  It's not as deep or thought provoking as heavier adult mysteries, but t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21534502">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A dazzling, brilliant novel. It is by and large considered a &quot;children's book&quot; (hence the well-deserved Newbery Medal), but the ingenuity, humor, and portrayals of racial and socioeconomic diversity are notches above those of many &quot;serious adult novels.&quot; I read it when I was elev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13691621">more...</a>]]></body>
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