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MuzeFormatDesc: Audio Cassette
ISBN-10: 0807223255
ISBN-13: 9780807223253
Jan 2004
Publisher: Atheneum
Grade:
From 4 to 6
Unabridged
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Upon leaving an oppressive summer camp, twelve-year-old Margaret Rose Kane spearheads a campaign to preserve three unique towers her grand uncles have been building in their back yard for over forty years., While spending the summer with her great-uncles, 12-year-old Margaret begins a campaign to protect the gigantic Tower Garden they have erected in their back yard. Built of scrap metal, shards of glass, and porcelain, the Tower is seen by most of the neighborhood as a collection of junk, but Margaret sees it as her uncles do--as a wonderful work of art. Will Margaret be able to save her uncles' masterpiece? A Kirkus Editor's Choice for 2004.
| Size | | Height: | 7.0 in | | Width: | 4.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 2.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
"While the novels strikes a few uncharacteristically false notes toward the end, the author offers readers so much, so well, that her book is a veritable feast, amply demonstrating how intelligence can triumph over pretense."
Publishers Weekly (01/12/2004)
"This story condescends not one whit to its audience, passionately confronting readers with the critical importance of history, art, beauty, community, love, and above all, the necessity to invest oneself in meaningful action. This it does with every word in place, occasionally indulging in dizzying linguistic riffs, always conscious of the ironies inherent in the acts of living and growing up."
Kirkus (12/15/2003)
"It's rare to see, in a book for young readers, descriptions of art for art's sake....The actual legal drama to save the towers feels familiar. But Konigsburg's depiction of outsiders and outsider art is, like the towers themselves, a thing of strange beauty."
New York Times Book Review - Meg Wolitzer (04/18/2004)
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