The Westing Game

This is a story of baseball and how it is a team sport. The book relates with the title by showing how this boy named Sandy Comstock that plays on the Grantville Raiders and has a big game coming up. It was against the Newtown Raptors. He wanted to beat them and become one of the best teams. By the time he knew it he ended up on the Newtown Raptors team and he was going to play is old team. It was kind of like a baseball turnaround.

In the book, The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, the conclusion is what summarized the plot of the book. Knowing this, one might agree the way the ending was written was very effective. The owner of the Westing Paper Products Company, Sam Westing, was murdered. Sixteen people are called to Sunset Towers to participate in the reading of the will. Little did they know that the will was only going to unleash the monster in them all. The will of Sam Westing went on to say that one of the sixteen people in the room was a murderer, the same murderer that ended his life. Everyone would be paired into teams. Clues were spread out among the pairs-of-two and the game began. 200 million dollars was offered to the person who uncovered the secrets to

Scary stories are exchanged on Halloween night. Turtle Wexler is told spooky stories about the Westing House, by Otis Amber and Sandy McSouthers. Dared by Otis and Sandy, a bet is made, two dollars every minute Turtle stays in the house. She goes into the house only to run back

The title of my book is A Boy At War which is a novel of Pearl Harbor. The author of my book is Harry Mazer. The setting of A Boy At War was located in Honolulu, Hawaii. The time period of the book was December 7, 1941 and around the attack on Pearl Harbor. The main characters in this book is Adam Pelko, His father Emory Pelko, Marilyn Pelko, and Bea Pelko. Adam is a high school student, a military kid, good at sports, lives in New York, and has dark hair. Adam's father is Emory who is a Lieutenant commander of the Navy who is assigned to the ship Arizona. Adams mother who is Marilyn is a navy wife and is Adam and Bea's mom. Another character is Bea who is Adam's little sister. The summary of the book is that Adam meets a new friend named Davi

In “America the beautiful” the author’s use of diction creates an uplifting spiritual tone in the poem.The author uses the same words “oh beautiful for…”focusing not on America's flaws but on the beauty. For instance the start of stanza 4 she writes “o beautiful 4 heroes proved in liberty strife who more than self her country loved and marymor than life”.She apads for the people who believe in freedom of america by sacrificing their lives for their

Someone once said, “You can’t change people, either accept who they are or start living life without them.” This relates to the Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, because in the book, one of the main characters, Turtle, changed throughout the story. At the beginning of the story, she was rude, but at the end she was kind and trustworthy and this showed through her choices, actions, and dialogue. What I have learned is that change is possible if you try.

After reading The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, Turtle is a dynamic character. At the beginning of the book, the character is neglected; eventually, the character becomes genuine and Kind Hearted. These character traits were observed through Turtle's actions, dialogue, relationships, choices, and problems. Turtle towards the middle and the end of the book is nice. This connects to my life because Turtle is very nice like my two little sisters.

The title of my novel is I Survived The Japanese Tsunami. It is written by Lauren Tarshis. Lauren Tarshis has written multiple I Survived books by now, and this one was definitely one of my favorites. The genre of this novel is nonfiction it was a true story about a boy named Ben and his family. They went to visit Japan where his father had passed 4 months ago and during the visit, the worst strikes.

This is my book report about, “The Amulet Book 1 The Stonekeeper” by Kazu Kibuishi. The main characters of the story are Emily, Navin, Miskit, Karen, and Silas. Emily is the 12-year-old daughter of Karen Hayes. Emily is the natural born leader who hasn’t been the same ever since she witnessed her father’s death. Navin is the youngest of the Hayes family. He loves video games, robots, and making Emily laugh. Miskit is known as the brains of the team and acts as Silas’s right-hand robot for many years. Karen is Emily’s mother. She is a single mother who wants what is best for her kids. She’s still going through some tough problems ever since her husband died. Silas is Emily’s great-grandfather and the previous owner of the amulet. The bad guy in the story is the Elf King’s son, Trellis. He sent the monster after Emily’s mother in order to get to Emily.

The Westing Game is about a group of heirs trying to find the murderer of Sam Westing. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin contains many clues and mysteries that are worth millions of dollars. Gull Lake Middle School has read the book and watched the movie about TWG. The goal of The Westing Game is to win.

6th graders at Gull Lake watched the Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. The 6th graders at Gull Lake have been collecting similarities and differences from the novel and movie. Can the Westing Game be handled ? The Westing Game also has many clues and mysteries that have grabbed attention to the teachers and students at Gull Lake. The Westing Game contains many similarities and differences worth exploring.

Have you ever heard of someone with 5 identities and a networth of 200 million dollars? Barney Northrup is one of the most important characters and very foundational to the story in The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. First of all he sold all the apartments in sunset towers, he is Sam Westing, Windy Windkloppel, Sandy Mcsouthers, and Julian R. Eastman, and he founded the Westing game. This mystery novel would not come together without the mysterious Barney Northrup.

The Westing Game starts out with the delivery of six letters signed by Barney Northrup, to six different households on the Fourth of July. The letters offer a once in a lifetime chance to rent an apartment at the new and luxurious Sunset Towers, located on the shores of Lake Michigan. However, in the movie, Sunset Towers was located in the city. In the book, Sunset Towers was built mostly of glass and stood five stories high. Noticed in both the book and movie, Sunset Towers oddly faces east instead of west where the sun actually sets. In both the movie and the book, Barney Northrup manages to rent all the apartments out to the six hand selected households, which includes the Wexler family, the Theodorakis family, the Hoo family,

My book is about a girl named Hattie Campbell. Hattie, and her family were going to Oregon, to get land. Her aunt gave her a diary which she records

“The landscape, the whole great circle of it, grassheads, scrub, water, sky, quite took his breath away.” (Pg 17)