The Westing Game

Sunset Towers is a brand-new apartment building on the shore of Lake Michigan, and something about it is wrong from the very first page — it has only five floors, it stands alone at the edge of town, and the building faces east despite the sunset in its name. Six carefully selected households and businesses receive invitations to lease spaces there, drawing an unlikely community into one orbit: a judge, a dressmaker, a doorman, a podiatrist, an inventor, two restaurant families, a delivery man, a cleaning woman, and thirteen-year-old Turtle Wexler, who kicks anyone who touches her braid and reads the stock pages for fun. Then the millionaire who owns the shuttered mansion up the hill is found dead, and his will names sixteen people connected with Sunset Towers as heirs. The fortune is not simply handed over. Instead the will splits the heirs into pairs, gives every pair a short set of cryptic clues, and turns the inheritance into a game — and the clues arrive with no instructions at all, so the players must first work out what they are even looking for. Ellen Raskin’s Newbery Medal winner is a fast, funny, tightly engineered puzzle that plays fair with its reader and rewards anyone willing to take notes. These 8 Part workbooks cover the full novel, with vocabulary, comprehension, literary analysis, Think Deeper reasoning, SAT & TOEFL-style practice, and writing, all built on real-world CLIL background.