I guess it is worth reading, but I was disappointed anyway, for complicated reasons. In fact, I found this book listed on the curriculum page on the website for the K-8 school that I went to, and since I got a great education there, I thought the book was probably worth reading.
Frankweiler quite a lot when I was in the fourth grade or so, and this book came highly recommended for seventh and eighth graders, many of whom I was tutoring at the time. I remember liking Konigsburg’s much-earlier novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Waiting on Wednesday : If You Follow MeI read A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver (otherwise known on my to-do list as A Proud Taste for S&M) last summer when I was trying to give myself an introductory course in what’s been published in the world of Middle-Grades and Young Adult fiction since I left those sorts of books behind in the eighth grade or so.Books By Theme: The Not-So-Sunny Side of Florida.Waiting on Wednesday: Dead End Gene Pool.She Blinded Me With Science - In the Library, That.A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.L.Waiting on Wednesday: Jane's Fame ~ How Jane Auste.The Monstrosity Gazette: A weekly smattering of al.~ I read this book for The Tournament of Reading Challenge and the Four Month Challenge ~ Included in the book are ink drawings separating each of the narratives, along with a map. Each person takes turns relating the life of Eleanor in such a way that the reader doesn't get bogged down while learning about Middle Ages France and England, which is indeed exactly what is going on! Rather than focusing on dates and events, the story is told with a focus on Eleanor's personality, which is quite different than that of most other women of the 12th century. While waiting, the readers are told the story of Eleanor's life by three people who knew Eleanor while she was queen: Henry's mother, Abbot Suger (my favorite), and William the Marshal. Konigsburg sets up a clever premise in which impatient Eleanor is waiting in heaven for her husband, Henry II, to move 'up'. I love historical fiction, but I sometimes struggle to find books in the genre that I know kids will truly enjoy.
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