Tea is always at four

Teacher Eva-Marie Olinsky knows that a good team is not just four individual brainiacs; to win the intellectual tournament, they must become one.
Noah, the fact freak. Ethan, the genius of silence. Nadya, seeing autumn for the first time in her... life. Mysterious Julian. How is it that they, so different, understand each other without words? And by the way, who chose whom, Eva-Marie these four - or did they choose her?
In 1997, E. L. Konigsburg received the second (!) John Newbery Medal for this book - an award for outstanding contribution to literature for children. The first time this award was presented to her was in 1968 for the book "From the Archives of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, the World's Most Confused."