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Atheneum Books for Young Readers, December 2005
Trade Paperback, 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0689866372
ISBN-13: 9780689866371
Grades: 5 - 9
Awards and Nominations
- ALA Best Books For Young Adults
- ALA Notable Children's Books
- Blue Hen Book Award Master List (DE)
- CCBC Choices (Cooperative Children's Book Council)
- Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best
- Child Magazine's Guide to Top Books, Videos and Software of the Year
- Iowa Teen Award Master List
- Kansas State Reading Circle Middle School Titles
- Kirkus Editor's Choice
- KSRA YA Book Award Master List (PA)
- Maine Student Book Award Master List
- Massachusetts Children's Book Award Master List
- Nene Award Master List (HI)
- NYPL "Books for the Teen Age"
- Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award Master List
- Parenting Magazine's Best Books of the Year
- Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Nominee
- PSLA Fiction List
- Publishers Weekly Best Books
- Rhode Island Children's Book Award Master List
- School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
- SSLI Book Award Honor Book
- Texas Lone Star Reading List
- Virginia Young Readers List
- Washington Post Best Books
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Description
E.L. Konigsburg revisits the town of Epiphany to tell the story of Margaret Rose Kane, Connor's older half-sister. It's about the summer when Margaret Rose turned twelve--the same year that Cabbage Patch dolls were popular, that Sally Ride became the first woman to go into space, that El Nino turned the world upside-down. Margaret Rose begins her summer with a miserable experience at camp, from which she's rescued by her beloved, eccentric uncles. Little does she know that her uncles, in turn, need rescuing themselves--from a tyrannical city council determined to tear down her uncles' life work--three spectacularly beautiful towers that her uncles have been building since before Margaret was a baby. A rousing book about intelligence, art, and the fierce preservation of individuality, from EL Konigsburg.
"[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
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