New England Reading Association Journal, January 1st, 2004
KONIGSBURG, E.L. (1996). The View From Saturday. New York: Atheneum. ISBN 0-689-08993-X. In a series of interwoven stories, we encounter some appealing characters, particularly four sixth-graders, but also residents of a Florida retirement community and grudging farmers afraid of losing the flavor of their upstate New York town to development. The story of the book is told variously in first and third person voices, and connected by the third person telling of Mrs. Olinski's story. She is "the first teacher at Epiphany Middle School who ever taught from a wheelchair." Her first year back to t...
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