false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171163550m/89730.jpg 89730 7 Twelve year old Margaret Rose Kane is incorrigible. Not only does she refuse to bend to the will of her manipulative cabin mates at Camp Talequa, she stands up to and inadvertently insults the camp director and Queen-in-residence, Mrs. Kaplan. The intimidating and cruel confrontations that threaten to break Margaret's spririt only serve to strengthen her resolve, and everyone is happy when Margaret is finally banished/rescued from Camp Talequa. Luckily for her, with her parents in Peru, this means she can spend the rest of the summer with her delightfully eccentric Hungarian great-uncles, Alexander and Morris Rose. Margaret adores her great-uncles, and loves the house at 19 Schuyler Place--especially the three peculiar clock towers (tall painted structures covered in pendants made from broken china, crystal, bottles, jars, and clock parts) that the Rose brothers have been building for as long as she can remember. For Margaret and the Rose brothers, the towers represent beauty for beauty's sake--they sparkle in the sun and sing in the wind--they exist only to spread joy. Not everyone loves the towers however, and forty-five years after the birth of the project, the city council declares the towers "unsafe," and demands that they be dismantled and destroyed. Filled with the same fiery resolve that helped her survive Camp Talequa, Margaret (with the help of a handyman named Jake, a loyal dog named Tartufo, and few other unexpected allies) launches a plan to save the towers in the name of art, history, and beauty. <p> A companion novel to the award-winning author's acclaimed <I>Silent to the Bone</I>, <I>Outcasts</I> is strikingly unique, incredibly interesting, and, with references to "Bartleby the Scrivener", and the rose windows of Notre Dame, exceptionally literary. In other words, <I>The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place</I> is vintage Konigsburg. This quirky masterpiece will be enjoyed by young fans of Konigsburg's other erudite works, and Polly Horvath's <I>The Canning Season.</I>. (Ages 10 and older) 1137531 2004 The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place total:813|5:222|4:325|3:213|2:46|1:7| 813 3148 1087 135 5 2 false false Sun Apr 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 20 09:43:46 -0800 2007 Wed May 07 11:10:30 -0700 2008 Watts Towers, Konigsberg used them as a starting point and an inspiration, but the towers in Outcasts are in most ways distinct from their real-life counterparts (and...more...]]> 2 2 false false Tue Oct 14 19:53:47 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 19:54:27 -0700 2008 5 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 16 14:37:13 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 24 20:51:15 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 18:36:26 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 18:43:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 11 18:53:12 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 19:01:29 -0800 2009
I remember "From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" quite well. So when I stumbled on this book by the same author, I thought at least I'd get a decent story. Instead, I got a fantastic one.

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