The View from Saturday is about teamwork. What they discover when they find one another is that kindness and friendship make them a team. What Noah, Ethan, Nadia, and Julian had learned along the way is the true meaning of friendship. Each of 'The Souls' had been on a journey - a journey that interlocked their lives like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Olinski begins to realize what she didn't know in the beginning. When they go on to win the state Academic Bowl Championship, Mrs. These four students, calling themselves 'The Souls,' surprise everyone by defeating the seventh and eighth graders and winning the school-wide competition. Though she doesn't have a clue as to why she chooses Noah, Ethan, Nadia, and Julian, she has a premonition that her decision is a good one. Eva Marie Olinski is charged with appointing four students to represent her sixth-grade class in the Epiphany Middle School Academic Bowl competition. 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. 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. And it happened because Julian valued something important in himself and saw in the other three something he also valued. It happened when Ethan could not let Julian face disaster alone. It happened because Nadia discovered that she could not let a lot of baby turtles die.

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. And when they went on to even greater victories, everyone began to ask: How did it happen? It was an even bigger surprise when they beat the seventh grade and the eighth grade, too. Olinski’s team won the sixth-grade Academic Bowl contest at Epiphany Middle School. It was a surprise to a lot of people when Mrs. But were any of them true? How had she really chosen Noah and Nadia and Ethan and Julian? And why did they make such a good team? Olinski chosen her sixth-grade Academic Bowl team? She had a number of answers. Frankweiler comes four jewel-like short stories-one for each of the team members of an Academic Bowl team-that ask questions and demonstrate surprising answers. From the Newbery Medal–winning author of the beloved classic From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs.

The view from saturday by el konigsburg