Ellen Raskin's The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel), The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues, and Figgs and Phantoms
Raskin's The Westing Game is one of my all time favorite books, but she has several others that have similar themes and I decided to reread them all Thanksgiving day and night! Leon has word puzzles and the increasingly antic-filled quest to find the titular Leon, Tattooed Potato has similar identity-related plots but with artists, and Figgs deals with an outcast teenage girl, her bizarre family, and their own special heaven called Capri. Westing is still the pinnacle of Raskin's works, but the others are fun too. Leon: B+, Potato: B+, Figgs: B.
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