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The View from Saturday
Contributor(s): Konigsburg, E. L. (Author)

ISBN: 068980993X ISBN-13: 9780689809934
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 1996
Annotation: 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.

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Classics
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Friendship
- Juvenile Fiction | School & Education

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 95052624

Age Level: 8-12

Grade Level: 3-7

Lexile Measure: 870(Not Available)

Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.7" W x 8.4" L (0.60 lbs) 128 pages

Themes:
- Topical - Friendship

Features: Ikids, Price on Product

Awards: Newbery Medal, Winner, Children's, 1997

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/22/1996 pg. 242
School Library Journal 09/01/1996 pg. 204
Booklist 10/15/1996 pg. 424
New York Times 11/10/1996 pg. 49
SLJ's Best Books 12/01/1996 pg. 30
ALA Notable Children's Books 01/01/1997 pg. 1302
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/1996 pg. 70 - Recommended, Satisfactory
Kirkus Review - Children 07/15/1996 pg. 1051

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 15098
Reading Level: 5.9 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 7.0

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:
From the Newbery Medal-winning author of the beloved classic From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler comes four jewel-like short stories--one for each of the team members of an Academic Bowl team--that ask questions and demonstrate surprising answers.

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.

Contributor Bio(s): Konigsburg, E. L.: - E.L. Konigsburg is the only author to have won the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in the same year. In 1968, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler won the Newbery Medal and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was named a Newbery Honor Book. Almost thirty years later she won the Newbery Medal once again for The View from Saturday. Among her other acclaimed books are Silent to the Bone, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, and The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World.

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