The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The View from Saturday
Book Review: It's the best I ever read
Summary: 5 Stars
In order to read this book you have to get inside it,just enough so that you know exactly whats up with this plot. Personaly ,I think its the best book I ever read ,and I'm one of those kids whose parents refuse to buy them any more books beacuase its costing them $40 a week.Book Review: E.L. Has written the best book I have ever read.
Summary: 5 Stars
The View from Saturday is a tremendous book. It has every thing a kid looks for in a book. It has some hummor, but not too much where a kid is positive this book is not true. It has an exquisite team called the souls. I really like it when Noah tells how he got to be best man at the wedding. I also think the author was being very creative to write this book in which she tell two different kinds of stories. I think E.L. Koningsburg is a great author and inspires us all in our one wayBook Review: Give this great book a chance!
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't think people are giving this book a chance. Twice, in 5th grade and 6th, I have had teachers who read out loud to us, half way through the book, the kids would complain and and my teacher would stop the book because it was too confusing. I didn't think so, and on my own time, I read it, in my opinion, it was great. You've got to give it a chance!!!!!Book Review: A "Rocky" story of four sixth-grade intelligent outsiders.
Summary: 5 Stars
I have read virtually every book that E.L. Konigsburg has written, and this piece of work is truly superlative. What is most fascinating to me about the story is how little of the book actually deals with the climactic Academic Decathlon itself - the last 20 pages, maybe? Four intelligent, square-peg-by-choice sixth graders come swirling together like the four points of the compass to form one brilliant, beautiful, cohesive whole. As an ex-gifted child and a proud square-peg-by-choice adult, after reading the book my initial thoughts were "I'd have given anything in the world to have friends like those four kids when I was in sixth grade", followed immediately by "I'd have given anything in the world to have a teacher like Mrs. Olinski when I was in sixth grade." I can't recommend it highly enough; it really struck a deeply resonant chord with me, and I think I'm even going to buy it for myself (last book of which I bought my own copy was Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time - come to think of it, The View from Saturday's protagonists would have been soulmates with those of L'Engle's book...)Book Review: A fabulous book but not for age group intended.
Summary: 4 Stars
E>L>Konigsburg caught my attention when I read her novel From The Mixed-Up Files ... Her narration was refreshing and her humor subtle. I read all literature before I recommend it to my seventh graders. When I saw Ms. Konigsburg wrote a new novel and it was an award winner I almost suggested it for summer reading without previewing it myself. What a mistake that would have been! On several occasions throughout the book inappropriate language is included. On page 8 an elderly man equates practicing a musical selection for a friend's wedding with making love to the same woman for all these years. The author forgets that she is addressing an audience of children between 9 and 12 years old. A reference to his wife's cooking would have achieved the same purpose. Instead of calling a female dog a bitch, referencing it as a female dog would have sufficed. As an educator, in a Catholic school no less, I cannot recommend this book. It is very well written and has a wonderful storyline - I couldn't put it down. Why do such talented people with the power to mold fragile young minds succumb to the declining mores of today's society.