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Summary: Great Book
Review: This book, although it doesn't start out promising, is a great, intricate book. "The Souls," four sixth-graders, are working their way up in the Academic Bowl, and they're starting to threaten the other schools. It tells a brief story about each of the kids, then launches into a telling of their work and competitions. Even better than "From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" (but just barely)
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Summary: The View from Saturday
Review: The View from Saturday is a fun and interesting book to read, because it was somewhat like a fantasy. The View from Saturday was about four friends called The Souls. The friends were also an academic team and competed in contests. The four friends were very good at this. This book is probably good for you if you like going inside the characters heads. Every time I put this book down, it made me wonder what was going to happen next. My favorite character in the book was Ethan alhough I liked them all. Ethan was not that interesting until you knew what he thought about in each situation, then he took you by suprise. Noah was interesting as well but not quite as much. After you got out of his head he did not seem interesting at all. All the characters names were Noah, Ethan, Nadia, and Julien. This book was written by E.L. Konigsburg.
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Summary: A View From Saturday
Review: A View From Saturday is a very good story about a teacher named Mrs. Olinski, and four sixth-grade students. They have been selected for the annual school tournament. It turns out that the children share the same family, past, and memories, but initially don't know it and have never met each other. I really enjoyed this book although it can get a little confusing as it jumps from the past and the present.
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Summary: The View from Saturday
Review: The View from Saturday
By E.L. Konigsburg
Reviewed by Lily Pendery
The View from Saturday is about an acidemic bowl. The sixth grade teacher, Mrs. Olinski, is always asked about how she picks her team. She answers them by "I like diversity among my team", but she really doesn't know how she does it, until she meets the Souls.
The Souls are made up of four sixth graders, Nadia, Ethan, Julian, and Noah. They all have different backrounds and are talented many ways. Everyday, around four in the afternoon, they meet at Julian's house for tea. They do many things there, but I won't say more because you should READ THIS BOOK!!
This book is very well structured. However, it is confusing at first because the book is told in many different views from different characters. Again, READ THIS BOOK TO FIND OUT MORE!!!! :-)
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Summary: The View from Saturday
Review: The View From Saturday
By E.L. Konigsburg
By Channa Gilbert The View From Saturday is a very interesting book, especially since it is written from five different points of veiw. Nadia, Julian, Noah, Ethan, and Mrs. Olinski. Nadir, Julian, Noah, and Ethan, are The Souls. They all go to the same school and our in the same class. At the beginning of the book none of them are related in any way, not even as friends. But then, Nadia's grandfather, marries Ethan's grand mother, and Noah, was the best man at their wedding. That was during the summer. Now at the beginning of the school year, Julian, an Indian Brit, comes to their school, and invites the other three over to tea, thus, they become the souls. But as the book starts out, they are all at an academic bowl, where they are the only sixth grade team to make it to the finals, what happens next? You have t read it to find out!
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Summary: So unique!
Review: I truly enjoyed this book. Konigsburg took the individual stories of four sixth graders and connected them all together to create a novel of friendships, hope and understanding. This is a book to be shared with others. Great for literature circles.
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Summary: A 'Soulful" Book On Tea
Review: It started out as seprate journey, until Nadia Diamondstein, Noah Gershod, Ethan Potter, and Julian Singh cross paths at a tea party at the Sillington House. After wonderful discovery and confusing mishaps they set out to help their teacther "get back on her feet....when she doesn't have a leg to stand on". Being an avid reader who reads anyhting from Shakespeare to Dr.Seuss, I don't usually "enter the book, or relate to the characters". But this book welcomed me in and now has a place on my shelf with my other Shakespearean,Charles Dickens and Dr. Seuss classics.
Jasmine-age 13
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Summary: A book that boys and girls alike will love
Review: When I was first reading this book, it was complicated, confusing and didn't make sense. But after I started reading, the clues all fit together and my first imprssion of the book was not correct.
The View From Saturday is a great book because, it is funny, original, and cute. The story keeps you guessing and the ending is unexpected.
One of the characters in this story was Julian. I liked him a lot because, he didn't care what other people thought. He also made the best of a bad situation and dealt with problems calmly and logically. I also like him a lot because, not many people in real life are like him.
The auther in this book writes in a clever style. She uses flashbacks that are a longer time away in the beginning and grow closer to present life in the end. She also ties all of the charactors together in a suprising way. She uses fun idioms to spice up the book as well.
I think that the message in this book is that there can be one day BUT different people can still see it in different views. Everybody can see the same thing a different way.
I would recomend this book to everybody. I think that both boys and girls would enjoy it very much. I would recomend it because, it is a very odd and interesting book that actually makes you think about what you're reading.
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Summary: Fact: the Story is Great!
Review: The View from Saturday is a story of a sixth grade teacher, Mrs. Eva Marie Olinski, who has just returned to teaching after a tragic accident has left her a paraplegic. One of her duties is to select an academic team to compete for the school year. She struggles with her choice but finally picks Noah, Nadia, Ethan and Julian. Several times she attempts to explain her decision, without knowing why she chose them herself. You get to meet each of the team members as they tell you about themselves in their own words. Find out what a small world it is indeed as their lives become interwoven and friendships develop. You get to travel with the academic team to the competitions and experience the special chemistry of its members. You will also follow Mrs. Olinski's struggles with returning to the classroom where she discovers "...more than the names had changed. Sixth graders had changed." And finally experience the teas at Sillington House and find out why Ethan says, "Something had happened at Sillington House. Had I gained something at Sillington House? Or had I lost something there? The answer was yes." This is a wonderful journey of friendship and growing up. I recommend it highly.
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Summary: WOW
Review: I really loved this book. By the description of it i wasnt intrested. It sounds really boring, i mean really who cares about smart kids? Boy was I wrong! I was pulled in by Noah, the boy who knows a quite a bit about everything imaginably and master storyteller, was slighty annoyed yet intrested by Nadia, the hybrid and owner of the genius dog Ginger. Also i learned that slience was not always a bad thing when i met Ethan, discoverer of halos and knee socks and who can forget Julian the half Indian who started it all by asking them over for tea. Meet a brunette, a blonde, and a kid with hair as black as print on paper. These are the souls.
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