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The Westing Game is a mystery book written by Ellen Raskin and published by Dutton on May 1, 1978. [1] It won the Newbery Medal recognizing the year's most distinguished contribution to American children's literature. [2] The Westing Game was ranked number nine all-time among children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal in ...
Ellen Raskin (March 13, 1928 – August 8, 1984) was an American children's writer and illustrator. She won the 1979 Newbery Medal for The Westing Game, a mystery novel, and another children's mystery, Figgs & Phantoms, was a Newbery Honor Book in 1975.
Seventeen-year-old Dickory Dock, an art-school student in Greenwich Village, answers an ad for a job as a painter's assistant at Number 12 Cobble Lane.The painter, Garson, evaluates and hires her; in her duties of cleaning paintbrushes and answering the door, she becomes involved in Garson's mysterious affairs, as well of those of his downstairs neighbors, Manny Mallomar and Shrimps Marinara.
The New York Times' recent game, "Strands," is becoming more and more popular as another daily activity fans can find on the NYT website and app. With daily themes and "spangrams" to discover ...
When You Reach Me is a Newbery Medal-winning science fiction and mystery novel by Rebecca Stead, published in 2009.It takes place on the Upper West Side of New York during 1978 and 1979 and follows a sixth-grade girl named Miranda Sinclair.
Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner arrived at the Beverly Hills Hotel together ahead of the Grammys on Sunday.
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The Trumpet off Kraków in 1462, The Trumpeter of Krakow tells the fictional story of the family of Joseph Charnetski, [1] a Polish noble family from Kresy (modern day Ukraine), who fled to Kraków, Poland, in 1461 after their home is burned to the ground by the Cossack-Tatars of Bogdan Grozny, commonly known as "Peter of the Button Face" because of the button-shaped pockmark on his cheek.