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The View from Saturday Hardcover - 1996
by E. L. Konigsburg
They called themselves The Souls and met on Saturdays even before they became Mrs. Olinski's sixth-grade Academic Bowl team. At the state finals, Mrs. Olinski knows which questions each can answer and why. After reading their individual stories, the reader knows why, too. This novel of a triumphant team, wrapped around the stories of each team member raises, in its ingenius format, important questions about life and presents far-reaching answers. Young Adult.
Summary
HOW HAD 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.
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.
Details
- Title The View from Saturday
- Author E. L. Konigsburg
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 128
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York
- Date 1996-09-01
- ISBN 9780689809934 / 068980993X
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.7 x 0.8 in (21.34 x 14.48 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 09 to 12 years
- Grade levels 4 - 7
- Reading level 870
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Themes
- Topical: Friendship
- Library of Congress subjects People with disabilities, Friendship
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95052624
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
Citations
- ALA Notable Children's Books, 01/01/1997, Page 1302
- Booklist, 10/15/1996, Page 424
- Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/1996, Page 70
- Kirkus Review - Children, 07/15/1996, Page 1051
- New York Times, 11/10/1996, Page 49
- Publishers Weekly, 07/22/1996, Page 242
- School Library Journal, 09/01/1996, Page 204
- SLJ's Best Books, 12/01/1996, Page 30
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