The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place Reading Olympics
 Front cover, hardcover edition | |
| Author | E. Fifty. Konigsburg |
|---|---|
| Land | United States |
| Language | English language |
| Genre | Young adult novel |
| Publisher | Atheneum Books |
| Publication date | 2004 |
| Media blazon | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 296 pp |
| ISBN | 0-689-86636-4 |
| OCLC | 52478648 |
| LC Class | PZ7.K8352 Ou 2004 |
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Identify (2004) is a young adult novel by E. L. Konigsburg. Information technology is a companion of Silent to the Os,[1] a kind of prequel published 4 years later. Parent publisher Simon & Schuster recommends it for "Ages ten up".[ii]
Setting [edit]
The Outcasts is set in 19 Schuyler Place in the summertime of 1983,[3] primarily in downtown Epiphany, Blaring Canton, a fictional canton in Greater New York.
One other Konigsburg novel is set up primarily in Old Town and the neighboring Clarion Land University community, Silent to the Bone (2000); so is some backstory in The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World (2007). The View From Sabbatum is fix in another middle-school district of Epiphany.[a]
Summary [edit]
Margaret lives the rest of vacation with the Uncles. For 45 years they have synthetic 3 towers of scrap metallic, glass, and ceramic in their pocket-size back thou at 19 Schuyler Identify, onetime company housing that the Tappan Drinking glass Works long ago sold to its workers or to immigrants such as the Roses. The uncles take remained through Old Boondocks'south decline and contempo gentrification, merely the new home owning gentry accept petitioned to accept the towers demolished. Margaret spurs and leads a belated fight to relieve them after the Uncles have lost their last battle and given upwardly promise.
She plots initially with young Jake Kaplan. She personally recruits to the Cultural Preservation Commission. She does this through their mothers who still alive in Epiphany, two adults who were friends of her own female parent and neighbors of the towers as children, art museum manager Peter Vanderwaal and Infinitel (a telephone visitor) attorney Loretta Bevilaqua. With Jake she must handle Phase One: Terminate the demolition. On Loretta'southward advice she buys the towers for a dollar; on her own, she occupies them. Finally Jake must drag his female parent and the Meadowlarks from Camp Talequa into the fray.
Phases Two and Three and the epilogue comprise fewer than 20 pages.[four] Occupation with mass media publicity bought time. Peter who knew the towers as masterpieces of outsider art mustered bookish opinions in support. Loretta, who recognized their potential part, persuaded Infinitel to purchase them. They were moved to a new hilltop park above campus and topped with cellular telephone antennas. Margaret'due south triumph was bittersweet: she anticipated sharing it with her returning parents only saw that their love had ended and her family would presently suspension upwards. Tower Hill became a suburban housing development.
Characters [edit]
Margaret Rose Kane, 12, daughter of University Registrar Kane and Naomi Landau, a professor in the psychology department. She was named for her recently deceased grandmother Margaret Rose (Landau). Primarily she lives with her parents just they are away on vacation —until the denouement, page 285 of 296 in the Aladdin Paperbacks edition. They have always taken her along on previous vacations.
(Margaret was fifteen years older, four years earlier, as 1 of three master characters in Silent to the Bone (2000).)
Alex and Morris Rose are Margaret's swell uncles; her namesake was their love older sister. The 3 siblings immigrated from Hungary during the 1930s or earlier, and purchased 19 Schuyler Place (visitor housing) from the glass works when it moved out of the urban center. They operated "Jewels Bi-Rose" when downtown business was skilful, dealing in crystal, ceramic, jewelry, and timepieces. Morris is an good at timepiece repair, which has dwindled, and the brothers have been reduced to a small booth selling digital watches at the mall.
Mrs. Kaplan (Tillie), the regimentarian proprietor of Camp Talequa.
Jake Kaplan, son of Mrs. Kaplan and recently handyman at her Campsite Talequa. He is an artist by avocation and a formerly a billboard painter.
Peter Vanderwaal is near the same age as Margaret's female parent Naomi. He grew up side by side door at 21 Schuyler Identify and the towers inspired his career. He directs the art center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Loretta Bevilaqua, Peter Vanderwaal, and Naomi Landau were all born soon after World War Ii. She grew up at 17 Schuyler Place. She is an attorney and an executive at the New York Urban center headquarters of mobile telephone visitor Infinitel.
(Margaret's grown-upward allies Jake, Peter, and Loretta are secondary characters in The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic Globe (2007). Jake the artist is the absent begetter of boy narrator Amedeo Kaplan, and 1 cause or source of the boy's great noesis of fine art. Deo lives with his mother Loretta and Peter is again a crucial helper.)
Themes [edit]
The book offers many diverse themes to use in enrichment including: great sarcasm, relational assailment, time idioms, prefixes, activism, folk fine art appreciation, community development and family strife issues. "A bully, and emotional novel," reviewers report.[ citation needed ]
Notes [edit]
- ^ Mrs. Olinski and her students go to Epiphany Middle School (The View From Sat). The local middle schoolhouse in Old Town is Knightsbridge, where Connor and Branwell take the city double-decker from Tower Hill on the other side of the university campus (Silent to the Bone).
References [edit]
- ^ The New York Times Book Review. Review of The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Identify (2004) quoted in forepart endpapers of the Aladdin Paperbacks edition, first printing, January 2006.
- ^ The Outcasts, Aladdin edition, back cover.
- ^ The Outcasts, p. 1 (opening words). "The twelvemonth that I was twelve: Sally Ride became the offset American woman in space ...".
- ^ The Outcasts, ch. 27–xxx (pages 278–96 in the Aladdin edition).
Master Characters Margaret is a 12-twelvemonth-old girl and has colour pilus. She looks like... Alex is 45 years former and has color hair. He wears.... Morris is besides 45 and he has color hair. He wears....
Jake the camp custodian and is years former and has colour hair. He wears....
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place Reading Olympics
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