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Title: The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg, Rick Adamson, L. J. Ganser, Jeff Woodman ISBN: 0807204692 Publisher: Bantam Books-Audio Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 3 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book!
Comment: :
E.L. Konigsburg has come up with a great book again! The View From Saturday is a great book for middle-schoolers. Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing Division published it in 1996. A View From Saturday is a great book because it teaches and is great to read. Noah, Nadia, Ethan, and Julian are four sixth-graders each with a different story that changed their lives. Noah ends up being best man at Ethan's grandmother's and Nadia's grandfather's wedding. Nadia has the greatest time of her life saving turtles from strong winds and high waves. Ethan is on the bus and realizes that he must help Julian, a new kid, fit in at school. Julian is tortured by school bullies and realizes that something is in him and the other three. This is a great book. The point of view changes from one student to the other as they tell their stories. By simply reading the chapter titles you can see whose point of view it is. If there's no chapter title, then the point of view does not change. I recommend this book to anyone who likes to read books that make sense in the end.
Rating: 4
Summary: Heart and Souls
Comment: They call themselves the Four Souls: Noah, Nadia, Ethan, and Julian. They are four extraordinary sixth graders, possessing both brilliant minds and precocious insights into human behavior. They are the kinds of students that teachers feel lucky to encounter a few times during a career -- and Mrs. Olinski teaches all four during the same year! She recognizes their talent without exactly knowing why.
The four students form an incredible friendship centered around the ritual of Saturday tea, and, later, on an academic bowl team coached by Mrs. Olinski.
The book, which won a Newbery medal, had received some criticism for portraying twelve year olds with adult characteristics. It's true that their vocabulary and especially their insights boggle the mind. But I'd like to think that people like the Four Souls really exist, and, more importantly, that all children have flashes of brilliance that align them with the characters of this book.
The author's ingenious use of structure results in a perfectly balanced book, in which each of the children is given equal voice. These four people emerge from the sometimes ugly world of middle school, and, partially helped by and partially helping their teacher, they create of world of their own, where loyalty, creativity, and unusual thinking are the keys to happiness and self-discovery.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Tea Party To Remember
Comment: Nadia Diamondstein, Julian Singh, Ethan Potter, and Noah Gershom were "just kids" without one another. The first character is Nadia, the owner of an exceptionally smart dog and whose grandfather gets married over the summer. Julian, a stranger from England who knows magic and has a father who starts a Bed and Breakfast. Next in line is Ethan, the quiet child whose grandmother weds Nadia's grandfather. And Noah is the unlikely best man at the wedding, who always has a plan.
Together, however, the sixth graders formed The Souls, a tea partying, academic-quiz bowl playing, calligraphy-writing foursome who overcomes all odds to evolve into their true selves.
I loved this book. The View from Saturday was an amazing combination of well-written humor and an intricately woven plot line. This book was made for all people to read, it is a heartwarming tale that makes you want to go out and do something good for this crazy world.
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Title: Holes by Louis Sachar ISBN: 0440414806 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 09 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg ISBN: 0440431808 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1977 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech ISBN: 0064405176 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Bud, Not Buddy (Newbery Medal Winner, 2000) by Christopher Paul Curtis ISBN: 0440413281 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 08 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli ISBN: 0316809063 Publisher: Little Brown & Co (Juv Pap) Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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