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Summary: Meaningful but not as charming as Mixed-Up Files
Review: Ms. Konigsburg's "From the Mixed-Up Files..." is one of my favorite children's books and I expected the same easy charm and playfulness in this book. This book has an almost awkward style at times although I liked the intermingling of different perspectives for each of the main characters. This book is definitely more meaningful than "Files" in that it examines the potential that even 6th graders can have to change their own lives and those around them. Not a book I would re-read but worth while.
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Summary: Not as great as I thought
Review: I decided to read this book because everyone I talked to thought it was excellent. Although the cover looks interesting, I have tried to read it 2 times and still haven't gotten past the middle. A lot of books start out with an uneventful first chapter, but all the chapters I have read are as boring as the ones before.
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Summary: A Book That's Actually Worth Reading!!!
Review: This book is most enjoyable. This story has comedy, drama and suspense all in one. I like how it starts out most chapters with the state academic bowl then lead into a story about one of the souls who were the members of the academic bowl. Read this book and get hooked.
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Summary: Simply Phenomanal
Review: Let's get right to business. The View from Saturday, by E. L. Kningsburg, is my favorite book ever. I have read it countless times, borrowing whosever's copy was closest. I finally bought my own copy about a month ago, and it is already getting worn out, because I have turned the pages so many times. One of the reasons that this book is set apart from all other books is the subject material, and how it is written. It is about the sixth grade Academic Bowl team, and how they became a true team. The story line struck quite close to home for me. A member of academic teams myself, and someone who just completed the sixth grade, Koningsburg's descriptions of the hard work that is put into preparing for this kind of event is quite accurate. Also, the diversity of her team is also shockingly accurate. Each person has a distinctly different personality, which is always true. If each personality is different, it is so much easier to make a team out of 4 kids. The View from Saturday is a book that really touches upon things that aren't usually brought up very often. Most people I know have loved this book, but none as much as me. I think that once you have read this book, it gives you a whole new outlook on life. You see people in a different light- eccentric people, troublemakers, almost everyone I know I can relate to one of these characters. I read this book in the fourth grade for the first time. Now, in the seventh, I feel that the book itself has changed. Able to relate it to my everyday life, I can see not only how Mrs. Olinski picked her team, but how the people on my team got there. I would wholeheartedly reccomend this book to anyone who can read it, but especially kids in 6th grade or older, so they can get the full meaning of this wonderful work of literature.
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Summary: Becca's Favorites
Review: I read this book in 7th or 8th grade as a recommendation from our school librarian. In fact, I never had a choice, she made me read the book. But as I read it I began to feel a connection. The story itself is a bit confusing so you have to take your time or else you'll be confused by the end. It's not a book you want to skim through anyways. It goes through the school year with four characters, who all eventually meet and star on their school team for trivia. It's a great book to read and I definitely recommend. As soon as I read it, I went out and got my own copy of it. Sometimes required reading is definitely the way to go, it was for this book.
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Summary: One of the greatest I ever read
Review: I know I seem uncapible of reading at this level, but this book makes me proud of being brainy. It is a great book that really shows you the meaning of true friendship and happiness. There is no other word for it but fantastic
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Summary: A review on A View from Saturday
Review: I found this book "different" then most books that I have ever read. Though it was not a bad book, it's just not worth five stars. E.L. Konigsburg should have written more action rather then discriptions. I would recomend this book to readers who enjoy realistic fiction, but I suggest that you just try it out anyway. Over all I thought that this book was basically "not bad". The View From Saturday, was something that I thought that I would never like.
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Summary: The View from a Reader
Review: I am an ardent reader. I read The View from Saturday and was very delighted. It was an exciting and very interesting adventure into four children's lives that were barely related and at the end were the main subject in the community's everyday lives. How did the "not so popular" students--Nadia, Ethan, Noah, and Julian do something historical that was never accomplished at Epiphany High? Is one of the many questions that are asked and will be answered by the many action-packed events that these students had to go through. This book is so phenomenal because you can relate to the characters so well, that it is just amazing. You just wish that you were there to help or support the character when something terribly bad has occurred to him or her. I had tears in my eyes because I knew how a specific character felt when something had happened to him because I have been in the same situation. E.L. Konigsburg uses such strong and vivid language that she makes us feel what the main character(s) is feeling. She doesn't tell us that a penny is a penny, but she shows and describes it to us in such a way that you have never thought of before. Mrs. Konigsburg makes us see things in a whole new and different way, she makes us see the unseen and experience the inexperienced by just relating a couple of things. I would recommend this book to teenagers and children, ages eight through thirteen who enjoy fiction books that are completely "action-packed". Once you start reading the first chapter you will want to keep on reading and not put the book down because the story is very catchy. At the end of each chapter she leaves you hanging and you want to know what happens next, so you keep on reading until you find yourself done with the book.
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Summary: Annie's Book Review for "The View From Saturday"
Review: I think "The View From Saturday", was a good book, but it could have been better. I believe it could have been better because, some of the chapters just didn't catch my attetion, they weren't exciting. Although I did enjoy how the auther had all the characters join together in some way. (ex. Allen was suppose to be a best man for a wedding, but Noah was. Allen ended up being Nadias dad.) I also kind of liked Julian because he had something about him that just made me happy to know he is in the book. The magic tricks impressed me and the way he expressed his feelings were impressive. Like when he was trying to show his friends that they should help Mrs. Olinkski, he used a bronze monky. One other thing that I really liked about this book is how all the friends met and somehow formed a group. I liked how they listned to eachother and didn't yell at eachother. "The Souls" was definitly a name that fit that group. Over all I would rate this book a three because only some parts grabbed my attetion, while other parts had me in a trance!
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Summary: A Tea Party to Remember
Review: This book is full of suprises, starting from the very begining of the book all the way to the end. It is like a puzzle, filled with pieces that you have to put together. Four kids, who seemed they had nothing in common, were selected by there teacher, Mrs. Olinski, to be in a academic bowl. Everyone wanted to know, why did she choose these four people, but she didn't even know why. I recemend this book to people who like realistic fiction with a little bit of mystery mixed in. Find out how Noah, Nadia, Ethan and Julian are all connected, why Mrs. Olinski chose them and much more in this interesting book.
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