The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

 The Westing Game 

Published in 1978

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin has to be one of my favorite book that I read in school. As an adult I have read it a couple times. It is a classic children's mystery book. In school we played along trying to figure out the riddle with the characters. This book is also the reason I learned to play chess. Not that anyone, if anyone, reads this cares.

Anyway on to the book. So Turtle and her family move into Sunset Towers, an apartment complex with a restaurant in it. Sam Westing ends up dying and all of the people in apartment complex are invited to his will reading. No one really understands why they were all invited. But they all get a set of clues and they have to figure out the mystery. Turtle is determined to figure it all out. Little things happen that make people suspicious of eachother. The books builds a good back story and when the mystery is all solved you won't believe what it was all about.It is such a great mystery to play along with. I think that it could really make kids want to read books.

The characters have great back stories and it keeps you on the edge of the seat.


The Westing Game (TV Movie 1997) - IMDb

Rated: PG  1997  Run Time: 95 Mins

Not to confuse this with the 2002 movie starring Lindsey Lohan that has the same title but is made by Disney.

Shane West before he hit it big! I love seeing the movie that happened before the big breaks that actors end up getting. Shane plays Chris a boy in a wheel chair with a stutter. He is paired with Turtle in this adventure to solve a riddle. Turtle is a young girl who may not be seen as the nicest person. She has a tendency to kick people in the shins. But they are determined to get all the clues and figure out the mystery. This is such a great movie adaption. There are minor details that are different but nothing that throws the story off the books tracks.

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