The View From Saturday
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.
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.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780743597135 (0743597133)
Publish date: December 8th 2009
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Minutes: 6
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Teen,
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Realistic Fiction,
Juvenile,
Middle Grade,
Contemporary,
Chapter Books
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...
At first this book seemed to be a children's version of Slumdog Millionaire: Four kids take part in a quiz and everybody else although they are among the youngest competitors. As in Slumdog Millionaire nobody understands how they know all the answers. So little stories are told showing how they had ...
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."
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