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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780689817212 
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It was a surprise to a lot of people when Mrs. Olinski's team won the sixth-grade Academic Bowl contest at Epiphany Middle School. It was an even bigger surprise when they beat the seventh grade and the eighth grade, too. And when they went on to even greater victories, everyone began to ask: How did it happen?
It happened at least partly because Noah had been the best man (quite by accident) at the wedding of Ethan's grandmother and Nadia's grandfather. It happened because Nadia discovered that she could not let a lot of baby turtles die. It happened when Ethan could not let Julian face disaster alone. And it happened because Julian valued something important in himself and saw in the other three something he also valued.
Mrs. Olinski, returning to teaching after having been injured in an automobile accident, found that her Academic Bowl team became her answer to finding confidence and success. What she did not know, at least at first, was that her team knew more than she did the answer to why they had been chosen.
This is a tale about a team, a class, a school, a series of contests and, set in the midst of this, four jewel-like short stories — one for each of the team members — that ask questions and demonstrate surprising answers.
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Average customer rating based on 4 comments:
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pm26, July 17, 2007 (view all comments by pm26)
this is a great book
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josher2468, May 13, 2007 (view all comments by josher2468)
This book was good, but I got lost with all of the flashbacks and forshadowing. This is an OK book to read for teens and adults.
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crowyhead, March 27, 2007 (view all comments by crowyhead)
LOVED this! I picked it up because a) I love Konigsburg's From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankwiler, and b) because it concerns the members of an Academic Bowl team, and I spent most of middle school and all of highschool taking part in such nerdly pursuits.
Konigsburg deftly weaves together the stories of five characters: the Academic Bowl team members, Noah, Nadia, Julian, and Ethan, and their teacher/coach, Mrs. Olinski. There's no plot summary that can do the book justice, because the plot is just a very small element in the actual story, which is about bravery and friendship. The book's also wickedly funny -- Konigsburg, as usual, never missing an opportunity to poke fun at officious figures of authority.
A lot of the reviews on Amazon.com question whether this book actually speaks to the children that form its ostensible audience. It's a good question; it's really a very sophisticated book, and the four sixth-graders are most unusual and wise beyond their years. I don't think it would appeal to all children -- but I don't think the Newberry is really about choosing a book that will appeal to everyone. I think it will find its own dedicated audience who adore it in the same way many of us adored From the Mixed-Up Files. I definitely would have loved it when I was in sixth grade.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780689817212
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Aladdin Paperbacks
- Author:
- Location:
- New York, NY :
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Subject:
- Friendship
- Subject:
- Classics
- Subject:
- Children's 9-12 - Fiction - General
- Subject:
- Social Situations - Friendship
- Subject:
- Social Situations - General
- Subject:
- Schools
- Subject:
- School & Education
- Subject:
- Teacher-student relationships
- Subject:
- Physically handicapped
- Subject:
- Contests
- Subject:
- Physically handicapped -- Fiction.
- Subject:
- Situations / Friendship
- Subject:
- Social Issues - Friendship
- Copyright:
- 1998
- Edition Description:
- B102
- Series:
- Jean Karl Books Paperback
- Publication Date:
- February 1998
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- Children/juvenile
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 176
- Dimensions:
- 760x530x49 27
- Age Level:
- 08-12
