by E.L. Konigsburg
I read The View from Saturday when I was in elementary school. I don't remember much about the content of the book itself, I only remember it being a great read. I remember being so interested in the book I hated when we had to stop reading it. We read the book as a whole group where every student h...
I read this in 6th grade, and I really did not like it all that much. Sure, it's an interesting read, but I feel it would have been better and LESS CONFUSING if the author wrote from only ONE CHARACTER'S point of view! It may have worked for other people, but for me it made this book confusing and n...
One of my favorites from childhood.
Loved it! "Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts." "He learned to be a passenger. He learned to read the ocean by the cupful. He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as destination. Every voyage begins when you do."
EL Konigsburg has (mostly) managed to capture what it was/is to be a sixth grader, good and bad. Parts of this book are so great. Nadia Diamondstein's narration makes me cry every time I read it. It perfectly portrays so many feelings I had as a 12-year-old, but I wouldn't have appreciated this book...
I just love books by E.L. Konigsburg. They're funny with such endearing quirky characters.
This book kinda sorta was about a team of young middle school kids who work together and go to the Academic Bowl. If this was a linear world, and this book was a documentary, that’s what you’d say this book was about. Instead, Konigsburg tells a circuitous story, of four misfits and their misfit tea...
Very interesting characters, but no plot to speak of.Library copy.
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