Especially the fact that it's s murder mystery book. The westing game is a very good book ! With all the different twists and turns the characters go through throughout the book it makes it more interesting. Please don't give a bad rating b/c your kid wasn't ready. You are the judge of when your kids can handle it (read it first, it'll take 3 nights total if you are a super slow reader like me). I have read every Agatha Christie and every mystery/thriller author I can find BECAUSE of The Westing Game. The Westing Game is a brilliant, well-written mystery. I tried Harry Potter a year earlier and failed. The negative reviewer either doesn't know when or how to read books to kids. He loves this book.Īfter Harry Potter, I wanted to test mysteries. One kid was very bothered by main characters getting in trouble like Draco catching Harry in the Slytherin train car. My kids, 6 and 8, read (aloud) the Harry Potter) books first. this sounds discounting to most of you, but if your read the book yourself, your can tell your kid - it's the Westing GAME, and don't worry. There are references to finding a corpse early on. Also may not be appropriate until much older. and the winner can't collect her prize until the inheritance becomes available.This can work for young kids. It makes sense that the book would have to get to this point, though, since the original game was tied to the "death" of Sam Westing. The ending skips so many years ahead from when most of the game takes place that the thirteen-year-old heroine's now a married businessperson. But it's not just Sam W who's bitten the bullet-several other key characters have passed away at this point. In Ending # 3, Turtle's with Sam Westing when he dies for real, and she finally becomes the heir. Everyone seems to be "growing up," though, even the adults: businesses are successful, people are getting married, and characters are seeing rewards for their good deeds.
She's good at keeping secrets, and she won the game fair and square.Įnding #2 takes us to peek into the characters' lives five years later, when some of them have figured everything their lives out. While this might not seem like much of a prize-apart from the $200 million, that is-it suits Turtle just fine. She's the winner but no one else knows it. In Ending #1, Turtle solves the mystery, and the other characters go about their lives. Untying such a complicated concoction takes more than just one neat little ending, right? However, maybe it's fitting for the game-within-a-game structure of the book.
Okay, so there are actually three endings to this novel-which is something that hardly ever happens outside of a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure story.
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