The view from Saturday
Record details
- ISBN: 073935017X
- ISBN: 9780739350171
- ISBN: 9781400089925
- ISBN: 1400089921
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Physical Description:
4 sound discs (4 hr., 47 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
sound disc
sound recording - Publisher: [Greenwich, CT] : Listening Library ; New York, NY : Random House Audio, p1997.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "An unabridged production." "Performed by a full cast." |
Participant or Performer Note: | Rick Adamson, L.J. Ganser, Agnes Hermann, Aasif Mandvi, Barbara Rosenblat, Jeff Woodman. |
Summary, etc.: | 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. |
Target Audience Note: | Recommended for listeners ages 10 and up. |
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Subject: | Teacher-student relationships Juvenile fiction Friendship Juvenile fiction Schools Juvenile fiction Contests Juvenile fiction People with disabilities Juvenile fiction |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Gunn Memorial Library - Washington | JBCD FIC KON (Text) | 34055107202875 | Juvenile Fiction CD | Available | - |
Killingworth Library Association | J CD KON (Text) | 33420145006020 | Juvenile Audio Book | Available | - |
Author Notes
The View from Saturday
Elaine Lobl Konigsburg, noted children's writer and illustrator, was born February 10, 1930 in New York City. She received a BS in chemistry from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University) in 1952. She did graduate study at the University of Pittsburgh. Her best-known titles included A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, The Second Mrs. Giaconda, Father's Arcane Daughter, and Throwing Shadows. She won the Newbery Honor in 1968 for From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and the William Allen White Award in 1970. She won the Newbery Medal again in 1997 for The View from Saturday. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler was adapted into a motion picture starring Ingrid Bergman in 1973 and later released as The Hideaways in 1974. It became a television film starring Lauren Bacall in 1995. Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was adapted for television as Jennifer and Me for NBC-TV in 1973. She died on April 19, 2013 from complications of a stroke that she had suffered a week prior at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography)