The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E.L. Konigsburg
Youth Fiction- Lower Level- Konigsburg
Teen Zone Fiction- Main Level- Konigsburg
CD Book- Lower Level
Margaret Rose Kane’s summer at Camp Talequa is not going as planned. She had hoped to stay with her two great-uncles during her parents’ trip to Peru, and she finds that camp is a difficult place to express her freewill and individuality. Eventually Uncle Alex and his dog Tartufo arrive to rescue her and bring her back to 19 Schuyler Place, familiar and beloved to her with its looming clock towers in the backyard. The uncles have spent decades constructing the sculptures from bits and fragments of whatever they can find, and have decorated them with paint and shining, smooth pieces of glass. Margaret adores them.
However, some of the neighbors do not. The towers are scheduled to be taken down in the name of property values, and the uncles are resigned to this fate. Can one twelve-year-old girl save three tall towers from destruction? Not alone- she’ll need all the help she can get. Check this out for an entertaining read on individuality and art from an award-winning author.