The View from Saturday

by E. L. Konigsburg

Four unlikely students are selected by their teacher, Mrs. Olinski, to form the sixth grade team for their school's Academic Bowl. During a series of competitions, the individual talents of team members Noah, Ethan, Nadia, and Julian are used to propel the team to the state championship. Meanwhile, the team's success re-instills feelings of confidence and success to Mrs. Olinski, who has recently returned to teaching after being paralyzed in a car accident that killed her husband. Winner of the 1997 Newbery Medal.

Editions of The View from Saturday

ISBN 9781424217755	Binding/Format Reinforced Hardcover	Publisher Fitzgerald Books	Date 2007	Price None Available
ISBN 9780689817212	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Aladdin Paperbacks	Date 1998	Price $1.00	Fine
ISBN 9780689821639	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Simon & Schuster Merchandise &	Date 1998	Price $1.00	Used - Good
ISBN 9780689829642	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Simon & Schuster	Date 1999	Price $1.00	Used, Good
ISBN 9780590165839	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Scholastic	Date 1999	Price $13.49	New
ISBN 9780786226917	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Thorndike Pr	Date 2000	Price $9.82	Very Good
ISBN 9780689809934	Binding/Format Reinforced Hardcover	Publisher Atheneum	Date 1996	Price $1.00	Very Good
ISBN 9780807278901	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Books on Tape	Date 1997	Price $3.00	Good Condition
ISBN 9780807278918	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Listening Library	Date 1997	Price None Available
ISBN 9780613062787	Binding/Format Prebinding	Publisher Bt Bound	Date 1999	Price None Available
ISBN 9780743597135	Binding/Format Compact Disc	Publisher Simon & Schuster Childrens	Date 2009	Price None Available

Media Reviews

"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."

Synopses

Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.

First Line

Mrs. Eva Marie Olinski always gave good answers. Whenever she was asked how she had selected her team for the Academic Bowl, she chose one of several good answers. Most often she said that the four members of her team had skills that balanced one another. That was reasonable. Sometimes she said that she knew her team would practice. That was accurate. To the district superintendent of schools, she gave a bad answer, but she did that only once, only to him, and if that answer was not good, her reason for giving it was.

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