The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E.L. Konigsburg

They were moved to a new hilltop park above campus and topped with cellular phone antennas. Loretta, who recognized their potential function, persuaded Infinitel to buy them. Peter who knew the towers as masterpieces of outsider art mustered academic opinions in support. Occupation with mass media publicity bought time. Phases Two and Three and the epilogue comprise fewer than 20 pages.

Finally Jake must drag his mother and the Meadowlarks from Camp Talequa into the fray. On Loretta's advice she buys the towers for a dollar on her own, she occupies them. With Jake she must handle Phase One: Stop the demolition. She does this through their mothers who still live in Epiphany, two adults who were friends of her own mother and neighbors of the towers as children, art museum director Peter Vanderwaal and Infinitel (a telephone company) attorney Loretta Bevilaqua. She personally recruits to the Cultural Preservation Committee. She plots initially with young Jake Kaplan. Margaret spurs and leads a belated fight to save them after the Uncles have lost their last battle and given up hope. The uncles have remained through Old Town's decline and recent gentrification, but the new home owning gentry have petitioned to have the towers demolished. For 45 years they have constructed three towers of scrap metal, glass, and ceramic in their small back yard at 19 Schuyler Place, former company housing that the Tappan Glass Works long ago sold to its workers or to immigrants such as the Roses. Margaret lives the rest of vacation with the Uncles. The View From Saturday is set in another middle-school district of Epiphany. One other Konigsburg novel is set primarily in Old Town and the neighboring Clarion State University community, Silent to the Bone (2000) so is some backstory in The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World (2007). Primarily in downtown Epiphany, Clarion County, a fictional county in Greater New York. The Outcasts is set in 19 Schuyler Place in the summer of 1983, Parent publisher Simon & Schuster recommends it for 'Ages 10 up'. It is a companion of Silent to the Bone, Ī kind of prequel published four years later.

The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place (2004) is a young adult novel by E.

The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E.L. Konigsburg