[PDF] The Tattooed Potato And Other Clues eBook

Author : Ellen Raskin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101486066

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From the Newbery Award-winning author of THE WESTING GAME, more clever riddles and wordplay, clues to be found, and mysteries to be solved! Wanted: Assistant to a painter (and a secret sleuth) Dickory Dock has come to 12 Cobble Lane to take the job as painter's assistant to the artist Garson. The townhouse looks charming and quaint, but inside its redbrick walls lurk suspicious characters, multiple mysteries, and one very eccentric portrait artist. Clues abound; and suddenly Dickory finds herself assisting Garson not in art but in crime solving. Can Dickory untangle the web of mysteries within mysteries and discover the true secret hiding on Cobble Lane?

Author : Ellen Raskin
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
Release : 2011-01-06
Category :
ISBN : 9780606153492

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From the Newbery Award-winning author of "The Westing Game" comes this story of Dickory Dodd, who comes to 12 Cobble Lane to take a job as a painter's assistant. However, she suddenly finds herself assisting the artist in crime solving. An ALA Notable Book. Reissue.

Author : Nancy Garrity
Publisher : Good Year Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 27,42 MB
Release : 2000-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780673363879

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Educational resource for teachers, parents and kids!

Author : Janice Montgomery
Publisher : PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 25,51 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781593630812

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Educational title for gifted and advanced learners.

Author : Ellen Raskin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0593526716

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A Newbery Medal Winner For over thirty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. They could become millionaires-it all depends on how they play the tricky and dangerous Westing game, a game involving blizzards, burglaries, and bombings! Ellen Raskin has created a remarkable cast of characters in a puzzle-knotted, word-twisting plot filled with humor, intrigue, and suspense. Winner of the Newbery Medal Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award An ALA Notable Book A School Library Journal One Hundred Books That Shaped the Century "A supersharp mystery...confoundingly clever, and very funny." —Booklist, starred review "Great fun for those who enjoy illusion, word play, or sleight of hand." —The New York Times Book Review "A fascinating medley of word games, disguises, multiple aliases, and subterfuges—a demanding but rewarding book." —The Horn Book

Author : Ellen Raskin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101486058

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From the Newbery Award-winning author of THE WESTING GAME, more clever riddles and wordplay, clues to be found, and mysteries to be solved! Glub! Blub! Mrs. Caroline "Little Dumpling" Carillon isn't quite sure what to expect when she sets off to meet her husband, Leon. After all, she hasn't seen him since their wedding when she was five and he was seven. But their reunion is cut short when a storm knocks him off their boat, and he disappears completely, leaving only one very waterlogged clue (Glub! Blub!). Will Dumpling be able to find Leon (or is it Noel) again? And just what is a glub blub?

Author : Elizabeth Cole Midgley
Publisher : Lorenz Educational Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 37,14 MB
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1573104663

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Provides language arts, social studies, writing, math, science, health, music, drama, physical fitness, and art activities for use in kindergarten through sixth grade classes which celebrate the month of January. Includes lists of books and bulletin board ideas.

Author : Jim Higgins
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 31,4 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1467136050

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"From the humble Ingalls family cabin in the woods to Ayad Akhtar's multicultural conflicts, the Badger State's stories and imagery have long inspired. Explore how Aldo Leopold and Lorine Niedecker drew on their close observations of the natural world. Contrast the distinct novels that Jane Hamilton and Larry Watson set on Wisconsin apple orchards. Delve into Thornton Wilder's enduringly popular Our Town and the wild fiction of Ellen Raskin and Cordwainer Smith, who wrote like no one else. Join Jim Higgins for a detailed account of ten notable Wisconsin writers that blends history, literary criticism and fact."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Jessica Case
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1493882597

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This standards-based instructional guide provides teachers with rigorous activities and lesson plans to help students comprehend complex literature, as they read the 1979 Newbery Medal-winning mystery novel, The Westing Game. Students will learn how to analyze the text to determine meaning, make summaries, and more. Text-dependent questions help students analyze the text with higher-order thinking skills, with lessons focused on story elements, vocabulary, and more. Close reading activities throughout the literature units encourages students to use textual evidence as they revisit passages to respond more critically about the text. Support the rich exploration of literature in today's classrooms with this resource.