The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place - Softcover

Konigsburg, E L

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0689866372 ISBN 13: 9780689866371

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005

Synopsis

I Prefer Not To....

That's Margaret Rose Kane's response to every activity she's asked to participate in at the summer camp to which she's been exiled while her parents are in Peru. So Margaret Rose is delighted when her beloved uncles rescue her from Camp Talequa, with its uptight camp director and cruel cabinmates, and bring her to stay with them at their wonderful house at 19 Schuyler Place.

But Margaret Rose soon discovers that something is terribly wrong at 19 Schuyler Place. People in their newly gentrified neighborhood want to get rid of the three magnificent towers the uncles have spent forty-five years lovingly constructing of scrap metal and shards of glass and porcelain. Margaret Rose is outraged, and determined to strike a blow for art, for history, and for individuality...and no one is more surprised than Margaret Rose at the allies she finds for her mission.

About this title

Review:

"A thing of strange beauty."

New York Times Book Review

"Konigsburg at her masterful best."

School Library Journal, starred review

"[One of] Spring's Best Kid's Books."

People magazine

"Literate, funny, and inspiring."

Washington Post

"Elegant, absorbing...a veritable feast."

Publishers Weekly, starred review

About the Author:

E.L. Konigsburg is the only author to have won the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor in the same year. In 1968, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler won the Newbery Medal and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth was named a Newbery Honor Book. Almost thirty years later she won the Newbery Medal once again for The View from Saturday. Among her other acclaimed books are Silent to the Bone, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, and The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0689866372
• ISBN 13: 9780689866371
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304