After 30 successes ranging from "fair" to "jaw-dropping," I finally admit a failure. I won't review it because I might ruin it for you. If you like it--and Lizzie Skurnick surely did--read it.
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
I gave up at about chapter 9. If I'd read it at age...say...ten, I might have thought it was a great mystery. But at age fifty-something I can't keep track of the twenty some-odd characters, the random jumps of perspective, and the mixed up mash-up of the plot.
Enough. Since it's one of the teen books, I'm just going to drop it off the list and add the honorable mention book #101 at the end of the list. And that one is not a teen book. Yeah!
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