Study Guide

The View from Saturday Characters

By E. L. Konigsburg

Paraplegic. Handicapped. Cripple. With words like these, no wonder it takes Mrs. Olinski 10 years...

Oh, Julian. Julian obviously never got the memo about sixth grade, because it's like he's begging...

Let's let Mrs. Olinski introduce Nadia:Had she been born five hundred years sooner, Raphael would...

Like Noah and Nadia, Ethan spends part of the summer before sixth grade in Florida. Unlike Nadia...

Noah learns about beginnings from his grandfather's friend Tillie, who teaches him that filling a...

Like Mrs. Olinski, Mr. Singh has secret pain in his past. He's been widowed too. And they've both...

Mrs. Olinski almost chooses Hamilton Knapp as the fourth member of her team, even though any...

Margaret is Ethan's grandma and Nadia's step-grandma. She's also the former principal of Epiphany...

Izzy is Nadia's grandfather and Ethan's step-grandpa. He's a sweet guy who's gotten a second...