The View from Saturday

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Summary: Four nifty little stories, bound together by a great read.
Review: I loved the way there were four short stories, along with the major event(State Academic Bowl Championship). The characters were unforgettable. The plot was great. Definately, the best yet by E.L. Konigsburg. Well worth the time it will take you to read it. Which won't be long because it is impossible to put it down.

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Summary: Super WOW!!!
Review: Definitely the best-ever by E.L. Konigsburg. It made me wish I could be a kid again and be in that group. This is the perfect book for those great elementary or middle school students who are not quite accepted by their peers because they march to a different drum.

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Summary: The Best Book I Have Ever Read!
Review: This is the best book That I have ever read. Three things are abousoluntly suberb about this book: the writing style, the character, and the plot. That sound like just about every thing, ha? The thing about this book though, is that it is a little hard to understand a first, so it's a good idea to read the book a few times. Again, this is the best book on the earth.

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Summary: GREAT book a book you don't want to end.
Review: I loved this book. It was a book you didn't want to put down. The story line was cool. Hey the whole book was AWESOME!!!!!!!!

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Summary: Outrageously Good!
Review: I loved this book!!!! I can see why it won an award!! It was so not predictable! & such a pretty ending!!

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Summary: I don't like this book because it is odd.
Review: I don't like the plot or the characters.I think it's kind of boring

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Summary: Deserved the Newbery
Review: This book was fabulous. I read some of E.L. Konigsbergs books before and this is one of her best works. It takes on a different format from most of her books. It details 4 students who are on an Academic team but who share much more, including a strong and caring friendship. The book starts out like a collection of short stories in which we veiw some of the same events through different eyes. But in the end, rather like Dickens, one sees the links by which all the characters are connected and how everyone shares the same story but within it, has their own story to tell. The plot itself was very compelling, the characters sensationally cast, and the story was not only witty and charming, but had an inner depth to it. Teachers and librarians should definately add this book to their lists and anyone whose enjoys Konigsberg should pick it up.

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Summary: THIS BOOK WAS GREAT!!!!
Review: This book is one of the best books I have read in a while. The author has done a great job of writing this book and has writen it in a wonderful point of veiw.This book teaches you about friendship and how you can become friends with the wierdest of people. The View From Saturday was a wonderful book. Everything about it was great. A MUST read!!

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Summary: The View From Saturday is a great book!
Review: E.L. Konigsburg is a great author who can combine many ideas into great characters. Once I started reading it i could not put it down! So far, I've read it 6 times. Every time it gets even better! This book should be recommended for everyone to read.

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Summary: Lives of four sixth graders are changed by a teacher.
Review: A sixth grade teacher, Mrs. Olinski, needs to choose four smart students to represent her school for the Sixth Grade Academic Bowl contest. She is feeling stressed about who she should choose. In order to give herself time to think, she goes to a store called Mr.Singh's Teas at Sillington House where people drink tea. When she got in the store there sat four students from her class drinking tea. They all turned back at the same time and looked at her. Something told her that they were the right students for the contest. She had chosen four of the strangest kids in school; Noah, who has a brain that works differently from everyone else, Ethan who is really shy, Nadia who has red curly hair and Julian who dresses differently from everyone else. When everyone found out that she had chosen these four, they were all surprised and shocked. They would ask Mrs. Olinski why she had chosen such weird students for such a big role. Mrs. Olinski couldn't answer because she didn't know the answer. She would just say that they looked like they would practice. As the days went by Noah, Ethan, Nadia and Julian decided to call themselves the Souls and would practice and practice for the contest. When the contest began, the Souls competed against another sixth grade school. They were very brave and won them. Then they needed to compete against other schools. The Souls had beaten all of the sixth grade schools that were trying out for the contest. That meant that they would have to try and win the seventh graders. That was impossible. No sixth graders had ever gone this far. Everyone thought that the Souls would lose but they were wrong. The Souls also won the seventh graders too. Now the hardest part was to beat the best eighth graders that had won three times. If you want to know if they beat the best team and find out what the real reason Mrs. Olinski chose the Souls, get this book because it is really good. It is true that it is not often you see or hear weird people prove themselves smart. This book shows that no matter how you act, look, dress or if your brain works differently, you can still be as smart as anyone else.