About the B'Nai Bagels
by E. L. Konigsburg
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Mark Setzer tells about his troubles in general and in particular his misfortunes on the little league team managed by his mother and coached by his brother.Tags
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1969. A Jewish, B'nai B'rith, little league team almost wins the championship. Mark Setzer isn't too happy when his mother volunteers to manage his team and makes his older brother the coach. Lots of Jewishness and boys sneaking peeks at Playboy for a nickel a pop.
Once again, Konigsburg has written a book that will stick to my brain and heart. It's utterly different from her other books - and yet, the same. The same complex characters, truth about life, realistic portrayal of family and relationships and growing up. Konigsburg did an excellent job of writing a book about growing up for kids that resonates with adults as well. Mostly, I think, because even though I am an adult by age, I still get lost like Mark did - and it is as comforting to an adult as to a child to read how things turn out all right in the end. I highly recommend this, and all of her other books.
A novel about a boy who faced many changes after moving and who was preparing for his Bar Mitzvah
E.L. Konigburg Weeks 2012, Book 5.
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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, show more 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) show less
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- About the B'Nai Bagels
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- 1969
- Dedication
- c. 2 Phyllis Winski
c. 4 Kevin Past
c. 3 LJCRS Book Fair Selection 5769
For my own dear mother who knows almost nothing about baseball and almost everything about love & stuffed cabbage
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