Ellen Raskin

"For over forty years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people (including a dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge, a bookie, a burglar, and a bomber) who are invited to the reading of the very strange will of the very rich Samuel W. Westing. They could become millionaires, depending on how they play the game. All they have to do is...

Answering an advertisement for an artist's assistant involves seventeen-year-old Dickory Dock in several mysteries and their ultimate solutions.

The disappearance of her husband is only the first of the mysteries Mrs. Carillon must solve.

When a red roof with a little lost animal lands at their feet, Moose and Goose help the little creature find its home, mother, and identity.

Four children try to figure out what the new boy's middle initials stand for.

A nearsighted little girl talks about and shows some of the unusual things she saw before being fitted with glasses.

Cumulative verse reveals the sounds made by various animals, but who said chitter-chitter-chatter?

Every afternoon in the rain forest the pig, the parrot, and the potto meet for tea; and every afternoon a rainstorm spoils their party until the potto has an idea.

Amid preparations for Operation Apollo, secret agent Brian Leonard meet James Churchill who has "gone round-the-bend for a parole from the mental ward," "a widowed beauty ..., an unfocused psychiatrist, an unbelieving chaplain, and a charming alcoholic."--Container.

To become instant millionaires sixteen heirs must unravel the strange will of Samuel W. Westing.