E.L. Konigsburg
Paperback | Pages: 176 pages Rating: 3.75 | 42443 Users | 2121 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The View from Saturday |
| ISBN: | 0689862210 (ISBN13: 9780689862212) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Noah Gershom |
| Literary Awards: | Newbery Medal (1997), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1998) |
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How has Mrs. Olinski chosen her sixth-grade Academic Bowl team? She had a number of answers. But were any of them true? How had she really chosen Noah and Nadia and Ethan and Julian? And why did they make such a good team? It was a surprise to a lot of people when Mrs. Olinski's team won the sixth-grade Academic Bowl contest at Epiphany Middle School. It was an even bigger surprise when they beat the seventh grade and the eighth grade, too. And when they went on to even greater victories, everyone began to ask: How did it happen? It happened at least partly because Noah had been the best man (quite by accident) at the wedding of Ethan's grandmother and Nadia's grandfather. It happened because Nadia discovered that she could not let a lot of baby turtles die. It happened when Ethan could not let Julian face disaster alone. And it happened because Julian valued something important in himself and saw in the other three something he also valued. Mrs. Olinski, returning to teaching after having been injured in an automobile accident, found that her Academic Bowl team became her answer to finding confidence and success. What she did not know, at least at first, was that her team knew more than she did the answer to why they had been chosen. This is a tale about a team, a class, a school, a series of contests and, set in the midst of this, four jewel-like short stories -- one for each of the team members -- that ask questions and demonstrate surprising answers.Describe About Books The View from Saturday
| Title | : | The View from Saturday |
| Author | : | E.L. Konigsburg |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 176 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 2003 by Aladdin Paperbacks (first published September 1st 1996) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Fiction. Childrens. Middle Grade. Realistic Fiction |
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Very good book--my mom correctly described it as a "quiet upper." Moms are often but not always right...but mom was right on this one. Was glad to finish it at the end of a rough day. The book ends with strong messages of "kindness prevails" and "rely on others; they won't disappoint." Others have read and hailed Koningsbird, but this is my first book of hers that I have read. Her writing and storytelling prowess is jaw-dropping. I wanted to start it again just after finishing it. TheseAs a teacher, I enjoy books about teachers and students. It's a nice, but somewhat predictable, story about four students who help their teacher to regain confidence in herself when she returns to teaching after an accident that leaves her in a wheelchair. Of course, their teacher didn't realize she needed their help, she thought she had just chosen them to be her quiz bowl team...a little contrived. The character development of the four students who make up "The Souls" (as the team calls
As a testament to how awesome this book is, any time I carry it around the school, a bunch of kids will run up to me and say, "That book was so awesome! The answers are in the back" and then run away.
First read in sixth grade for school; then, recently, I picked it up again on a whim, because working in literature education with kids of a similar reading level made me think back to the books I read when they were around their age. I remember finding this book interesting, but a little weird. But my impression of this book seemed to ripen with age until I was convinced it was canonical lit for sixth graders everywhere.Well, the reread was disappointing. Despite it being written in the
I've got to stop listening to things on audio books. It makes it really hard to follow and this book has an inexplicably bizarre format. You start off in the state contest, which has answers that segway into long short stories so that you get to know the main characters. Then you deal with the teacher, then suddenly you're back in time at the first local contest and find out how the team came together in the first place, but with audio, you can't remember the name of the state contest and it
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler was one of my favorites when as a youngster; I know I read the book two or three times at least. So when Mom hijacked my library account (hi, Mom!) and put this one on hold for me, I was eager to read through another Newbury-award-winning novel by E.L. Konigsberg.Here's what I found on page one: "They called themselves The Souls. They told Mrs. Olinski that they were The Souls long before they were a team, but she told them that they were a
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