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~Amazon.com Review
A powerhouse sixth-grade Academic Bowl team from Epiphany Middle School; the art of calligraphy; the retirees of Century Village, Florida; a genius dog named Ginger; and a holiday production of "Annie" all figure heavily in the latest book by E. L. Konigsburg, who has produced a Newbery Medal-winning children's tale to rival her classic From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, which won the Newbery Medal almost 30 years ago. The new book centers around a group of four brilliant, shy 12-year-olds and the tea party they have each Saturday morning. Konigsburg's wacky erudition and her knack for offbeat characters make this a funny and endearing story of friendship.
From Publishers Weekly
This 1996 Newbery Medal winner charts the ties that bind four members of an extraordinarily successful 6th-grade quiz bowl team. In a starred review, PW called it "glowing with humor and dusted with magic." Ages 8-12.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Gr. 5^-7. Four sixth-graders are chosen by their teacher, Mrs. Olinski, to be the class representatives for the Academic Bowl team. When the team goes on to perform amazing feats of erudition, including winning the state championship, people keep asking Mrs. Olinski how she chose the participants. Although the questioners never get a real answer, the story, told from different perspectives, lets readers in on the secret. Konigsburg's latest shows flashes of her great talent and her grasp of childhood, but the book is weighted down by a Byzantine structure that houses too many characters and alternating narratives that will confuse readers. The story begins at the wedding of two senior citizens in which young Noah is the best man. Two of the other team members, Ethan and Nadia, are grandchildren of the bride and groom, and the fourth member, new boy Julian Singh, cements the group when he invites the others for tea (yes, tea). Mrs. Olinski, who is wheelchair bound, only thinks she is choosing the quartet, when it is just as true they are choosing her. Overriding themes of civility and inclusiveness add interesting elements, but this is more ambitious than it is successful. Ilene Cooper
From Kirkus Reviews
Admirable acts, challenging ideas, and grace notes positively festoon this superb tale of four sixth graders and a paraplegic teacher forming a junior high Academic Bowl team that sweeps away the competition. The plot is composed of interwoven puzzles. What prompts Mrs. Olinski to choose Noah, Nadia, Ethan, and Julian for the team over the usual overachievers and honor students in her class? What do they know about her, themselves, and each other that puts them so precisely on the same wavelength and gives them such complementary knowledge and experience? Each has a tale to tell, in the course of which all four witness acts of kindness and respect that teach them to find those feelings in themselves and others. In wry prose filled with vivid imagery, information, and often oblique clues, Konigsburg takes her team through bonding, drills, and a series of contests as suspenseful as any in sports fiction; the children and Mrs. Olinski's public triumph mirror inner epiphanies of rare depth and richness. The large cast, looping plot line, and embedded stories with different narrators require careful sorting, but the effort is eminently worthwhile, and Konigsburg kindly provides answers at the end. (Fiction. 11-13) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Review
Some of us have already read every book E. L. Konigsburg ever wrote, but others are going to begin with this book and will probably find it very hard to stop before going through the whole shelf. -- The New York Times Book Review, Beth Gutcheon
Review
"When most people hear 'large-print book,' they immediately think senior citizen. But large-print editions of popular children's books -- from the powerhouse Harry Potter series to timeless classics like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -- are now making their way onto the shelves of the Children's Department at the Canton Library. . . . Although large-print editions are targeted to the visually-impaired or dyslexic child, they can also be used by standard-vision readers. So Kershner [Children's librarian at the Canton Public Library] has decided against creating a special section in the Children's Department (as exists in the Adult Department) opting instead to intersperse large-print books on the shelves with the regular print versions of the same titles."
-- The Observer and Eccentric (October 2000) (The Observer and Eccentric )
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-- Jim Bernardin, Islamorada, FL
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-- Sara Bernardin, Islamorada, FL
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E. L. Konigsburg is the only author to have won the Newbery Medal and be runner-up 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 Newbery Honor Book. Almost thirty years later she won the Newbery Medal once again for The View From Saturday. She has also written and illustrated three picture books: Samuel Todd's Book of Great Colors, Samuel Todd's Book of Great Inventions, and Amy Elizabeth Explores Bloomingdale's. In 2000 she wrote Silent to the Bone, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, among many other honors.
After completing her degree at Carnegie Mellon University, Ms. Konigsburg did graduate work in organic chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. For several years she taught science at a private girls' school. When the third of her three children started kindergarten, she began to write. She now lives on the beach in North Florida.
网友对The View from Saturday的评论
还可以，挺便宜的，孩子很喜欢
I can't believe it has taken me so long to learn of this book. A friend suggested it to me a month or so ago, after I'd complained about the series of cruddy bestsellers I'd sludged through recently to no ultimate satisfaction. I was a bit skeptical, it seemed to be formatted and written for a younger set - indeed, it concerns a group of sixth graders in a sort of educational state competition. I am currently 24, and tend toward books with decidedly different central topics.
But this is now my favorite book that I can remember reading. Such simple ideas, but written so entertainingly and beautifully that you fall in love with every page turned. Honestly. You can't help but love the characters. And you'll without a doubt learn an interesting fact or two along the way... about sea turtles, calligraphy, magic...
This book should definitely be added to your reading list. It's a quick read and will leave you will a sense of betterment and a smilier outlook on the world and people around you , all of them leading their own interesting lives, and struggling their own struggles. And I found myself looking back at little, scared 6th grade me and wondering how my life my have been different if I'd had a group of friends like these cuties.
This is one of those books that I have ways wanted to read, but hadn't gotten around to reading it. I am teaching sixth grade for the first time (I have taught second grade for 14 years) and we have a limited number class sets of novels. This book just happened to be one of our class sets.
To start with, I think this is one of those books that you read all at once, and not stretch out. It was one of those stories where the characters are all connected in one way or another. I don't want to give away too much, but it's a rather deep story with lots of great talking points.
Terrific book. Once you start reading, you'll see why it was the Newbery Award winner. My 5th-6th graders always love this story and it is great to read aloud as a family if you have older kids. Even if they've read it or you've read it a dozen times, it's so fun to read aloud because it's easy to forget just how unique and funny the different characters are throughout the book.
I picked up this book because it was on my son's required Summer Reading list and I wanted to read it along with him. (I will admit that it was probably not the best pick for a 12 year old boy who is partial to Harry Potter and Alex Rider collections. But I'm glad he got to read it.) The book is absolutely beautiful, and will stay with me for many, many years. Without being preachy, this story teaches the value of silence, of being quiet with oneself, of letting go of negativity and hatred in order to open oneself to kindness and beauty, and of the importance of friendship. It is a very simple story, with complex layers of meaning and plenty of room for projecting your own self into the themes. In my opinion, only a sophisticated middle school reader will appreciate this book on his/her own. But with group discussion, it is sure to become a favorite, remembered long after middle school ends.
This book deserves 100% a 5/5. This is one of those books that'll get you back into the habit, just like it did me. This book: "The View from Saturday", contains humor, history and science, some small sections of adventure and philosophy here and there. These 160 pages are worth the time to anyone with a logical mind and common sense. With characters that'll warm (and burn) your heart to scenes that should make you feel good about reading this ending with a plain suspensful (not) ending that...well, actually SHOULDN'T leave you with questions. This book is definitely above average.
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