The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place

By E.L. Konigsburg

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A girl fights to preserve her great-uncles’ legacy in the face of gentrification in this middle grade novel about finding your courage and the power of art from E.L. Konigsburg, the Newbery Medal–winning author of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

“I prefer not to” is Margaret Rose Kane’s refrain at summer camp. She didn’t want to come to Camp Talequa—with its uptight camp director and cruel cabinmates—and, while she may have been exiled here while her parents are in Peru, no one can make her participate. Thankfully, her sentence ends early when her beloved great-uncles rescue her 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. The recently gentrified neighborhood’s new residents want to get rid of her uncles’ masterpiece, a labor of love that took forty-five years to complete: three magnificent towers constructed 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. Luckily, her experience at camp gave her plenty of practice at civil disobedience…

About the Author

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E.L. Konigsburg

E.L. Konigsburg is the only author to have received 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 A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers (January 1, 2006)
  • Length: 304 pages
  • ISBN13: 9780689866371
  • Grades: 5 - 9
  • Ages: 10 - 14
  • Fountas & Pinnell™ W These books have been officially leveled by using the F&P Text Level Gradient™ Leveling System

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

People magazine

"A thing of strange beauty."

New York Times Book Review

"Literate, funny, and inspiring."

Washington Post

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

Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Konigsburg at her masterful best."

School Library Journal, starred review

Awards and Honors

  • School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
  • ALA Notable Children's Books
  • CCBC Choices (Cooperative Children's Book Council)
  • Virginia Young Readers List
  • ALA Best Books For Young Adults
  • Iowa Teen Award Nominee
  • Kansas NEA Reading Circle List Junior Title
  • PSLA Fiction List
  • Publishers Weekly Best Books
  • Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best
  • Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Master List
  • Kirkus Editor's Choice
  • Maine Student Book Award Reading List
  • NYPL Best Books for Teens
  • Parenting Magazine's Best Books of the Year
  • SSLI Book Award Honor Book
  • Texas Lone Star Reading List
  • Child Magazine's Guide to Top Books, Videos and Software of the Year
  • Washington Post Best Books
  • Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award Master List
  • Blue Hen Book Award Nominee (DE)
  • Nene Award Nominee (HI)
  • Massachusetts Children's Book Award Nominee
  • KSRA YA Book Award Master List (PA)
  • Rhode Island Children's Book Award Nominee

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The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place

By E.L. Konigsburg

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